Academic Centers and Programs

At Hampshire, you can work with a variety of programs and centers that focus on new, emerging areas of study or integrate learning with community-based or socially conscious endeavors, as well as other resources to support you on your academic journey.

Here, we believe that learning is a dynamic, collaborative process. That’s why we provide a range of academic and support services designed to help you succeed

Two students sit talking in the R.W. Kern building. Sunlight is streaming in.

Harold F. Johnson Library

The library is a dynamic hub of people, technology, and information that serves as an incubator of ideas across all disciplines. Educating for change demands comprehension of the past and vision for the future. The library's innovative and risk-taking intellectual environment fosters new ways of creating knowledge and understanding.

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Cole Science Center (CSC)

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Hampshire College Center for Design in use, three people working on different projects in the space.

Center for Design (C4D)

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The Kern Building in the fall at dusk. Tones of green and brown with a blue sky in the background.

The R.W. Kern Center

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The Five College Women’s Studies Research Center

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The Hampshire College Farm

Begun in the late 1970s for on-campus research purposes, the farm expanded its scope in 1992 when a small group of students began a 30-member organic vegetable CSA as a Division III project. The farm, however, still maintains its academic roots. Whether exploring sustainable agriculture, animal behavior, or local food systems, Hampshire College students and faculty use the farm as a hub for investigating the intellectual, political, and scientific issues surrounding food production.

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