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Amherst College, the perennially top-ranked liberal arts college in Massachusetts, announced this week that its longtime unofficial mascot, Lord Jeffery Amherst. The move comes after protests last ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, Amherst College announced that it would no longer give children of alumni special consideration during admission selection. It is the latest school to make the move (MIT and Johns ...

Every year, more than 100,000 community college students transfer to private four-year universities. That’s only about a third of those who started community college in the cohort two years earlier.

Amherst College announced Wednesday that it is eliminating the preference it has granted in admissions to legacy applicants since the 1920s. Currently, 11 percent of Amherst students are legacies.