AMHERST — Alumni Weekend at Amherst College, typically a celebratory occasion for members of classes marking milestone anniversaries, featured two pro-Palestinian demonstrations, including one ...

Amherst College announced today that it is ending its practice of giving admissions preference to legacies - the children of the college’s alumni. By Michael T. Nietzel Senior Contributor Oct 8 ...

The morning Amherst College announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed it was ending admission preferences for legacy students, alumni group chats lit up. As one Amherst grad characterized it at the ...

This is the first year in which they did not receive a preference. Amherst College this year expects to enroll a class that is made up of 6 percent legacy students—those with an Amherst graduate ...

According to Amherst College, this new retail establishment in the former A.J. Hastings space at 45 South Pleasant Street in Amherst is operated by campus retailer Follett. The new store sells ...

The Amherst Exempted Village Schools and Marion L. Steele High Student Council will introduce its Distinguished Alumni 2024 Gallery of Success inductees, according to a news release. The Gallery of… ...

Amherst College Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT has not considered alumni connections when deciding to admit students since at least 2006, according to a blog post on the MIT admissions ...

Amherst was seen as a religiously conservative college, with students expelled for playing cards or drinking, and less devout students rounded up and denounced for their lack of piety. Towards the end ...

Student activism was also crucial to the passage of Amherst’s new major: The Amherst Student traced calls for Asian American studies at the college back to 1972, when students published an open ...