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Get directions or download a campus map before you arrive. Looking for a place to stay? Check our local accommodations list for Hampshire-approved recommendations. Explore the Pioneer Valley while you're here. One of the things that this crisis shows is that the kind of standard — I think, relatively maybe boring and outdated — approach to undergraduate education, which is essentially to say that if you come to college as an 18 year old and take a program of study — a major that is kind of a watered down version of what graduate programs do — that that's somehow going to prepare you to go out into the world and deal with problems like global pandemics or climate change or inequality or the declining importance of the arts.
Those are not questions that are easily addressed from a single perspective. And I think what students will want increasingly is to think about their college educations as an opportunity to begin addressing those relevant, meaningful existential problems that their generation is going to be tasked to solve. Colleges that shift their emphasis in their curriculum and their approaches in ways that invite students to actually engage those questions as part of their core curriculum and their experience rather than the thing they're going to do after they graduate will benefit.
And of course, that's what Hampshire does. That's where our curriculum has shifted as we're going forward. That's a little self-serving, I understand, but I think it's true. So moving away from a traditional liberal arts model more towards creating your own major pursuing your own inquiries?
I don't think it's to move away from the liberal arts. What the liberal arts have classically been is the educational approach that says to a person: ask a huge question, take on a problem that other people can't solve and learn everything you need to know from every possible source of information and apply your creativity to that question or problem. That's what the liberal arts are. I mean, go back to wandering around Athens with Socrates, right? And so I think it's a return to the heart of the liberal arts, based on a realist's sense that the crisis of the 21st century, which is a crisis across lots of different domains, can only be solved by that kind of creative, open-ended thinking.
So what are you doing with regard to deposits? Did you let the date slip? Or did you maintain the deadline on May 1? We extended to June 1 like many other colleges. In part, to give students more opportunity to make decisions. In part, so that they would have more information from us to be able to say: here's where our planning is right now. Here's where we think things are going to be in the fall. We just thought it was the right thing to do.
The thing I would say about the financial situation of colleges in the era of COVID is that none of us are going to be able to thrive alone. From the wealthiest to the colleges that are most at risk, this is much too large of a challenge for anyone to weather alone.
I think that's true across our society. And so to the extent we value higher education as a society, we're gonna need to support it and support it as a public good. And I realize that that's maybe a little out of fashion these days. But I think what a crisis like this and a potential economic depression shows is the absolute essential importance, both of higher education, but also of the partnership that higher education has with the public locally, regionally and nationally.
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