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Posted on 01/09/2026 5:35:47 PM PST by matt04
After nearly closing in 2019, a Western Massachusetts college continues to face challenges, missing its 2025 enrollment goal by half.
Instead of recruiting 300 students, Hampshire College in Amherst enrolled about 150 new students. That makes for a total of 750 full-time students, Jennifer Chrisler, Hampshire’s newly named president, told MassLive in November.
Chrisler attributes some of the admissions challenges to other institutions opening up their waitlists and taking more students than usual, forcing even more competition between institutions to vie for the same students.
Many universities struggled with a decline in international students due to federal policies.
“That had a downstream sort of trickle effect, and we were certainly not immune from that,” Chrisler said.
She also attributes the missed enrollment target to fewer college-aged people in the U.S.
Hampshire has faced serious financial challenges after nearly closing in 2019. Since then, the institution laid off non-faculty employees, suspended certain benefits and required senior leadership to take pay cuts, among other actions.
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Despite the difficulty of the last admissions cycle, Chrisler has a positive attitude moving forward.
“We are sort of at this interesting transition point with me as the ninth president, where we get to reimagine for ourselves what this next chapter of Hampshire’s history is. And that gives lots of momentum and energy and creativity to the people who work, live, study here,” she said.
While it’s too early to project the college’s application numbers for this year, the college has seen an uptick in applications to just over 2,000 in comparison to this time last year, a college spokesperson said.
Chrisler said the college has raised $53.6 million toward its $60 million fundraising goal and is pushing for 300 first year students and transfers this year.
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Have they considered buying a couple of pieces of Catterpillar equipment and going into construction instead of education? As Judge Smails said, “Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.”
Diversity doesn’t always enrich.
Maybe they should offer courses taught in Spanish in keeping with the modern makeup of K-12 schools.
Somali?
If you want to get in, the first thing to look at is the acceptance rate. This tells you how competitive the school is and how serious their requirements are.
The acceptance rate at Hampshire College is 75.3%. For every 100 applicants, 75 are admitted. Well at least they got some standards.
Here’s hoping this and many other colleges go out of business. Big Education is due for a reset.
I don’t know why the idiots would pay that kind of money just to participate in Riots and Roadblocks. Freaks.
Out of curiosity I looked it up. From Wikipedia:
“Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It was opened in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education…”
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Well, there you go. Who the heck would want to spend time and money on something as vague as an “alternative education”?
These days, the smart kids are going to college to learn a skill, a trade. Chemistry, engineering, whatever.
The ignorant ones are chasing rainbows.
And for what it’s worth, I don’t blame those ignorant ones entirely. Plenty of college admissions folks stand ready to feed those students plenty of lies.
Commie Massholes all. Hope the place goes bankrupt, along with the sh*t hole state in which it resides.
Demographics says the next 10-15 years will be really ugly for small liberal arts colleges. I predict they will be turned into assisted living facilities.
We've peaked at 4.3M births in 2007. Now we are at 3.6M and dropping.
We are not even talking about AI, etc etc.
We should be closing down at least 50% of all universities in USA because there's no need for it.
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