Re-Envisioning Hampshire College for the next 50 years. To implement this plan, we need to raise $5 million by April 20, 2019 at https://hampshirefuture.org

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Re-Envisioning Hampshire College
for the 21st Century
The current crisis has catalyzed the Hampshire community to Re-Envision
Hampshire as a thriving independent institution.
We are proposing significant structural changes that will:
• Attract and retain students
• Achieve financial equilibrium
• Create curricular flexibility while retaining stability
• Re-engage our Five College consortium
• Embrace and integrate our alums
• Demonstrate the vital importance of this experimenting college for the 21st
century

2. This Re-Envisioning Plan Affirms
Hampshire’s Guiding Values
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SOCIAL JUSTICE
EQUITY ACCESSIBILITY
SUSTAINABILITY
COLLABORATION
CRITICAL INQUIRY
INTERDISCIPLINARITY
EXPERIMENTATION
CREATIVITY

3. Re-Envisioning Hampshire College Will:
๏ Harness inspiration from our history and the present
๏ Maintain the divisional system
๏ Retain narrative evaluations
๏ Ensure student-directed and collaborative learning
๏ Institute a flexible living curriculum
๏ Empower collaboration across the college community
๏ Pioneer new models of administration, governance, and finance
๏ Achieve financial sustainability
๏ Reinvigorate the admissions process
๏ Increase global outreach
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4. Foster Community through
Collaboration and
Mentorship
Hampshire will create a new
Community Commons to
attract and retain students
through a more radically
engaged and collaborative
college community
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Launch Interdisciplinary
Research Centers with
Flexible Curriculum
Hampshire will re-emerge as
a leader in higher education
through a flexible living
curriculum responsive to
21st century problems and
possibilities
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Establish a Sustainable
Financial Model Aligned
with our Values
Hampshire will achieve
financial sustainability via
new structures, cost cutting,
and renewed fundraising
efforts that draw from newly
galvanized alums and a new
curricular model
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5. The Community Commons:
Fostering Collaboration and Mentorship
The Community Commons re-envisions collaboration and community engagement as a core
curricular and co-curricular component of a Hampshire education. The Community Commons will
strengthen the connection between Student Life and Academic Affairs, and address all levels of
individual, interpersonal, and programmatic development, while fostering a culture of mentorship.
• Supporting community engagement,
collaborative leadership, facilitation, peer
mentoring, and advising practices
• Staff, alums, and faculty engaging with
students around curricular activities
• Fall Orientation for the entire community
(not just first years) creating common ground
• Fully integrating upper divisional students as
peer advisors and mentors
• Development of community partnerships,
internships and community-engaged projects
across the curriculum
• Trainings, shared tools, skill development, and
leadership opportunities across campus
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6. Interdisciplinary Research Centers:
A 21st Century Living Curriculum
This plan restructures the academic program as a flexible living curriculum organized through
Interdisciplinary Research Centers (IRC) responsive to contemporary concerns and possibilities
(e.g., Migrations, Performance, Environments, Intelligences, Inequalities). The IRCs will reestablish our
competitive edge through a curriculum that is constantly evolving, addressing national and global
issues while reducing student isolation by creating academic communities.
• Enhance Hampshire’s reputation as an
undergraduate research college
• Reinvigorate the links between theory and
practice
• Affiliate faculty, students, and staff with a
particular IRC
• Foster collaborative engagement among
students, faculty, staff, and alums
• Enhance instruction via visiting artists, activists,
practitioners, and post-doctoral fellows
• Prepare students for graduate school, careers,
and lifelong learning
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7. Develop Summer Institutes,
Graduate Programs, and
Certificates
• Pre-professional Summer
Institutes and internships
• Selected MA programs and
certificates
• Semester-long special
programs for visiting students
Make Innovative Use of
Our Land
• Develop mixed-income
housing
• New agricultural,
commercial, and non-
profit development
• Sustainable “green living”
community
Capitalize on Renewed
Alum Engagement
• Leverage fundraising efforts
with the new college plan
• Involve alums in instructional
support and new initiatives
• Enlist alums in savvy
recruitment of students
• Build alum-to-campus
community connections
• Formalize alum engagement
by coordinating volunteer
network
New Revenue Streams:
Alums, New Programs, and Land Use
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8. Rethink Salary Equity and Retention
• Augment FT faculty with visiting artists,
practitioners, and post-docs
• Cap administrative salaries and
expenses
• Reduce costs related to hiring and
training staff by reducing turnover
through greater institutional support
Re-Embrace Five College Partnership
• Explore operational and administrative
cost-sharing
• Cultivate additional shared
resources and initiatives
• Attract Five College students to
summer Institutes and graduate
certificates
Cost Savings:
Salaries and Five Colleges
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9. Revenue Generation: Rebranding Hampshire as a
Collaborative Research College
• Improve retention
• Attract a wide array of students
• Reverse declining yield among high-paying students
to increase aid to lower-paying students
• Attract more international and other students who
seek a path to graduate study
• Draw new funding from foundations through the
innovative curriculum
• Capitalize on alum involvement for fundraising and
growing the endowment
• Increase stable revenue generated by new uses of
land
Blend of Tenured and Visiting Faculty
Provides Stability and Flexibility
• As new lines become available (through
growth, retirements, or resignations), hire
new tenure-track Assistant Professors for
continuity
• Create 3-year endowed non-renewable
visiting positions for artists, activists,
practitioners, and teaching post-doctoral
fellows that will enhance our curriculum and
lower labor costs
• 90 regular professors (all ranks), 30 visitors
Financial Summary
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10.
Assumptions
• Student body of 1300 (plus 100 in summer), faculty of 120 (11:1 ratio)
• An annual fund donation of $5 million through increased engagement by the alums
• In the short term, increase contribution from the endowment, then decrease this
contribution
• $10-15 Million from fundraising closes the FY19-20 deficit
• Retaining faculty and staff will increase student retention, reduce need for severance,
and result in a smaller deficit
With greater access to financial information,
this can be developed more fully.
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Financial Summary

11. Find alternatives to
terminations and layoffs
A partnership among the board, faculty, staff, students, alums, parents, and friends of the College can
ensure an independent Hampshire that retains its values and is financially sustainable. We propose
forming a Council to further explore these ideas and to enable a transition year, with limited to no
layoffs, while we develop and implement this plan.
Re-Envisioning an Independent Hampshire
Harness the energized
engagement of alums
and the public
Increase the number of
students for 2019-2020
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• Launch a capital campaign for long-
term sustainability connected to the
college’s 50th anniversary
• Work with alums to raise
$10–15 million to support the
transition
• Furloughs and leaves of
absence with guaranteed return
• Shared positions to help close
the gap for 2019/2020
• Visiting positions in the Five
Colleges
• Actively work to retain current
students by engaging them in the
process of Re-Envisioning
Hampshire
• Encourage incoming transfers
• Actively recruit a class for Spring
2020

12. "The collaborative spirit embodied in the Re-Envisioning proposal represents the spirit which
gave rise to Hampshire. This is precisely the creative and forward-looking planning that is
needed now to chart Hampshire’s course for the next fifty years. Empowering young people to
shape their own education is a demanding task that requires collaboration from faculty, staff,
and alumni as well as those from outside the academy. The effort to chart Hampshire’s future
must begin with those who know firsthand what the task involves. The proposed Council for
planning the future will enable Hampshire to move forward and, as past presidents and
founders, we stand ready to support the effort in any way that we can."
Charting Hampshire’s Course
for the Next 50 Years
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Charles Longsworth, 2nd President of Hampshire College
Adele Simmons, 3rd President of Hampshire College
Gregory Prince, Jr., 4th President of Hampshire College
Penina Glazer, Former Vice President of Hampshire College