Who are we?

Hampshire Student Life houses the centers and offices—from the Wellness Center to the Queer Community Alliance Center to Residential Life, and many more. Student life strives to provide programming designed to enrich your learning and experiences outside the classroom, as well as care and support to improve your holistic well-being, and make your time here stimulating and fun.

Our mission is to create and support opportunities and experiences that promote a diverse community. Through collaboration, we aim to build a community that guides themselves under principles of active listening; frequent reflection and evaluation, respect for others, even in disagreement; constant intellectual and emotional growth; integrity; justice; and safety for all members of the Hampshire community.
 

What do we offer?

We offer 50+ student groups, which support an eclectic range of campus events and activities, intercollegiate club sports, intramurals, an outdoor recreation program, and access to the clubs, organizations, and events at the other Five College schools.

We are also home to the various identity-based centers on campus—such as the Cultural Center, the Queer Community Alliance Center, and Spiritual Life—which work to increase awareness and appreciation of different cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives and to foster connections across social identities and ideas at Hampshire.

Whether you’re planning the line-up of live bands for Spring Jam, attending a multi-faith celebration, or designing a mural for one of the academic buildings, you have infinite opportunities to get involved and have an impact within the Hampshire community and the world!
 

Mission

The mission of Hampshire College is to foster a lifelong passion for learning, inquiry, and ethical citizenship that inspires students to contribute to knowledge, justice, and positive change in the world and, by doing so, to transform higher education.

Vision

We believe that graduating learners with the ingenuity, purpose, capacity, and grit to mobilize collaborative innovation and cooperative action is the most valuable contribution a college can make to society. We envision Hampshire alumni continuing to change lives, communities, and the world for the better.

Hampshire students take charge of their own intellectual and artistic development and integrate an active, independent, critical, and reflective perspective into their lives as a whole. Hampshire aims to graduate lifelong learners with the courage to challenge boundaries, ask questions, and ignite knowledge with creativity.

We envision Hampshire thriving as an innovator, providing inquiry-based, learner-centered education, and empowering students to think, discover, innovate, and advocate. We aspire to respond to the challenges of the twenty-first century by graduating adaptive entrepreneurs of change equipped to be creators of the ideas, art, and means of progress.

We envision a community that draws resilience, strength, and meaning from every kind of diversity. Hampshire aspires to foster a welcoming community inclusive of individuals from an array of backgrounds and perspectives. We believe that diversity is central to the academic experience, campus culture, and transformative learning.


We envision a community known for practicing:
 

• Active Inquiry posed rigorously by independent thinkers, creators, and doers.
• Creativity as invention that spans and links arts, humanities, and sciences.
• Social Justice as a goal of discourse, a responsibility of citizenship, and an accountable way to bring our ideals to life in the world.
• Entrepreneurship as the skill and determination to turn ideas into action.
• Sustainability as an approach to living that honors our obligation to the future.