This Year's LitFest: Steering the Craft
Amherst’s seventh annual literary festival featured “craft talks,” in which novelists Viet Thanh Nguyen, Katie Kitamura, Natalie Diaz and Elizabeth McCracken talked to students about creating characters, time frame, language and more. See a slideshow about Nguyen’s and Kitamura’s craft talks and, for a limited time, watch videos of six other LitFest events.
“Amherst College Has Set a New Standard” in Enrollment of Black First-Year Students
“There are 100 Black students in this year’s entering class. They make up 19.5 percent of the class of 2025,” reports The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. In the 28 years that the journal has been tracking statistics, no leading liberal arts college had ever before achieved a percentage that high.
Emily Dickinson Museum Receives $600,000 Commitment for Reconstruction of Evergreens Carriage House
This challenge gift from John and Elizabeth Armstrong kicks off a $3.5 million fundraising effort, called Twice as Bold, which celebrates the museum’s upcoming 20th anniversary and supports its long-range plan.
Amherst College Music Department Donates Steinway Piano to The Drake
The Drake, the Downtown Amherst Foundation’s soon-to-open arts and cultural venue, will be the permanent home of a Steinway & Sons piano. The Department of Music donated the instrument after the College made a $100,000 gift to The Drake project in January 2022.
Amherst Is a Top Producer of U.S. Fulbright Winners for 2021–22
Once again, Amherst is proud to be included on the list of colleges and universities that have produced the most U.S. student fellowship recipients in the Fulbright Program. The College has ranked as a top Fulbright producer among B.A.-granting institutions every year since 2008–09. Read More