AMHERST — Now in his fourth year as Amherst College’s 20th president, Michael A. Elliott is continuing to push for a synergy between the college campus and the adjacent downtown area, including its ...

Amherst College will contribute $2.5 million to the town of Amherst over the next three years to support local schools, emergency services, and infrastructure. The commitment, announced by Amherst ...

A literary festival in western Massachusetts is turning ten. Each March for the past decade, students, professors and the public have been convening at Amherst College for LitFest - several days of ...

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,795 students in the ...

You would think that Boston would be on a list of top college towns in the Northeast. Most of the time you would be right; however, this time, Amherst gets the honor. Amherst was ranked No. 1 on a ...

One of the nation’s most elite liberal arts schools, Amherst College has historically also been one of its most diverse. In 2023, federal data revealed that its overall Black enrollment, 11% of the ...

For two more Massachusetts schools, predictions that a Supreme Court decision last year that ended affirmative action in college admissions would result in less diverse student bodies appear to be ...