Podcasts about five colleges

It's late April, and most seniors are getting ready to make their final choice and deposit at the college they'll attend next fall. We're covering all the next steps they need to be thinking about. Many students with top choice colleges feel like they should attend a summer program at that college. We're also talking through the value of attending a college that participates in a consortium of some kind, from the Five Colleges in Massachusetts to the Claremont Schools in California.

It's late April, and most seniors are getting ready to make their final choice and deposit at the college they'll attend next fall. We're covering all the next steps they need to be thinking about. Many students with top choice colleges feel like they should attend a summer program at that college. We're also talking through the value of attending a college that participates in a consortium of some kind, from the Five Colleges in Massachusetts to the Claremont Schools in California.

It's late April, and most seniors are getting ready to make their final choice and deposit at the college they'll attend next fall. We're covering all the next steps they need to be thinking about. Many students with top choice colleges feel like they should attend a summer program at that college. We're also talking through the value of attending a college that participates in a consortium of some kind, from the Five Colleges in Massachusetts to the Claremont Schools in California.

Will and Brian tackle the latest release from WotC - Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos! Get an overview of what exactly goes on at this college of the arcane arts including the types of study available, faculty, and a lot more this week on The Dungeoncast! Be sure to check out our sponsor: Hero Forge Looking to sponsor an episode or just say hello? Reach out thedungeoncast@gmail.com Or send us something by mail at: Po Box 1784, Upland, CA - 91785 Get your Dungeoncast Merchandise Check out our D&D Liveplay, Superquest Saga Support us on Patreon Join the community on Discord Get us a gift from our Amazon Wishlist  Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

2021 HISTORY WRITER IN RESIDENCE PUBLIC LECTURE BY GREGG MITMAN The word “hotspot” can mean a place where fires flare, where novel viruses appear, where human rage erupts. In the turbulence of ecological, public health, and political crises, hotspots portend disaster and death. Too often hotspots and the menaces they pose are only made visible, only made objects of concern, when they threaten lives most valued in the brutal structures of capitalism and white supremacy that have gone hand in hand for more than four hundred years. Drawing upon work in Liberia, this talk interrogates the ecological, economic, political and social forces at play that have simultaneously turned certain regions into profitable sites of natural resource extraction, productive enclaves of biomedical research, and hot zones of pandemic threats. Gregg Mitman is the Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History, Medical History, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. -- The History Writer In Residence Program is presented by the UMass / Five College Graduate Program in History with support from Five Colleges, Inc. This residency is co-hosted by the Feinberg Series. Read more and watch the video: https://blogs.umass.edu/feinberg/viral-exchanges-hotspots-spillovers-and-the-reordering-of-life-lecture-the-land-beneath-our-feet-film-and-more/

In this podcast extra, host Emily Ko interviews Nefeli Forni, coordinator of the 80 Years of Xanadu: Legacies of Citizen Kane conference that is taking place on December 3. Nefeli invites faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from UMass Amherst and the Five Colleges to submit their academic paper, creative project, or video essay on Citizen Kane. She also talks about coordinating this conference, the kinds of work that she would like to see, and her personal connection to Citizen Kane! The deadline for abstracts is Friday, October 29. For more information (and the link to the abstracts submission form), go to: https://www.umass.edu/film/citizenkane80event If you have any questions about the conference, please email nforni@umass.edu Hosted/edited/produced by Emily Ko | Theme Music by Corey Shaya | Podcast art by Jacky Celestino --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/umassterclass/message

Welcome to our first interview on Red Clay Plays with Dr. Lisa B. Thompson! In this episode we talk about Afrofuturism, mothers who make art, writing the comedy out of pain and, of course, being a Southern Black playwright.Lisa B. Thompson is an award winning playwright, scholar, and professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of three books, Beyond The Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class (University of Illinois Press, 2009), Single Black Female (Samuel French Inc. 2012), and Underground, Monroe, and The Mamalogues: Three Plays (Northwestern University Press, 2020).Thompson's plays, which have been produced off-Broadway, throughout the US and internationally, include Single Black Female (LA Weekly Theatre Award for Best Comedy nominee, Irma P. Hall Black Theatre Award Best Play winner), Underground, (Austin Critics Circle David Mark Cohen New Play Award winner, Broadway World Regional Awards Best Writing of an Original Work nominee), Monroe (Austin Playhouse Festival of New Texas Plays winner), The Mamalogues (Broadway World Regional Awards Best Writing of an Original Work winner), and Dinner (Crossroads Theatre Genesis New Play Festival).Thompson has received teaching awards from the Texas Exes and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies. Her scholarly and creative work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies; the University of Texas at Austin's Humanities Institute; the W. E. B. DuBois Research Institute at Harvard University; the Michele R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research; the Five Colleges, the University of California's Office of the President; Stanford University's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity; Hedgebrook; the Millay Colony for the Arts; and MacDowell.You can find Dr. Lisa's work at:https://lisabthompson.comTwitter: @drlisabthompson Instagram: @drlisabthompsonLearn more about MOJOAA at:www.MOJOAA.orgFacebook: @MOJOAApacInstagram: @MOJOAApac

UMass Amherst Department of History Distinguished Annual Lecture and Feinberg Series Lecture by Mike Davis, moderated by Vijay Prasahd California Burning: The Apocalyptic Trinity of Climate Change, Alien Plant Invasion and Exurbanization An activist and writer, Mike Davis is the author of 20 books, including City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Planet of Slums, The Monster at Our Door, Magical Urbanism, Late-Victorian Holocausts, and most recently (with Jon Wiener) Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. An acclaimed public intellectual and global activist, Vijay Prashad is director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series is made possible thanks to the generosity of UMass Amherst history department alumnus Kenneth R. Feinberg ’67 and associates. The series is co-sponsored by more than 3 dozen university and community organizations. The Distinguished Annual Lecture celebrates the 1996 establishment of the UMass/Five College Graduate Program in History. Offered every academic year for more than 20 years, this signature annual lecture has been delivered by some of the nation’s foremost historians. The Distinguished Annual Lecture is presented by the UMass/Five College Graduate Program in History, the UMass Department of History, and Five Colleges, Inc. More info: https://blogs.umass.edu/feinberg/california-burning/

Good ppl, good ppl—last week we chopped it up with THEE Dr. Bettina Judd on so many goodness. This week, she brought in Aracelis Girmay's "The Black Maria" for us to melt our hearts over.  Bettina Judd is an interdisciplinary writer, artist and performer whose research focus is on Black women's creative production and our use of visual art, literature, and music to develop feminist thought. Her current book manuscript argues that Black women's creative production is feminist knowledge production produced by registers of affect she calls “feelin.” She is currently Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She has received fellowships from the Five Colleges, The Vermont Studio Center and the University of Maryland. Her poems and essays have appeared in Torch, Mythium, Meridians and other journals and anthologies. Her collection of poems titled patient. which tackles the history of medical experimentation on and display of Black women won the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Book Prize and was released in November of 2014. As a performer she has been invited to perform for audiences within the United States and internationally. Aracelis Girmay is the author of three collections of poetry: the black maria (BOA Editions, 2016); Kingdom Animalia (BOA Editions, 2011), winner of the 2011 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award and the GLCA New Writers Award, and a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; and Teeth (Curbstone Press, 2007). The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Civitella Ranieri, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Girmay is the winner of a 2015 Whiting Award for Poetry. She teaches in Hampshire College's School for Interdisciplinary Arts and Drew University's low-residency MFA program in poetry.

Hey you! This week we pop off on prosody before sitting down with the amazing Bettina Judd. Bettina takes us through her interdisciplinary approach to poems, patience, and of course, JOY! Bettina Judd is an interdisciplinary writer, artist and performer whose research focus is on Black women's creative production and our use of visual art, literature, and music to develop feminist thought. Her current book manuscript argues that Black women's creative production is feminist knowledge production produced by registers of affect she calls “feelin.” She is currently Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She has received fellowships from the Five Colleges, The Vermont Studio Center and the University of Maryland. Her poems and essays have appeared in Torch, Mythium, Meridians and other journals and anthologies. Her collection of poems titled patient. which tackles the history of medical experimentation on and display of Black women won the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Book Prize and was released in November of 2014. As a performer she has been invited to perform for audiences within the United States and internationally. JOY! Spritzes: An Aperol Spritz you have to toast the way Lucille Clifton signed all her books—with the word "JOY!" in all caps!

“I was so captivated by the notion of not just being able to understand the past, but in a certain sense to stand amongst it and to be within the past.” This week, Zach and Sam sat down with Eric Poehler, an associate professor of classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the director of the joint Blended Learning and Digital Humanities program for the Five Colleges consortium. Listen in to hear about Eric's path toward archeology and thoughts on a profession that forces one to be constantly immersed in the past.

This week, our news team talks about Oh My Sensuality Shop in Northampton, the Student Government Association elections and more news about Hampshire College and Amherst College.

The ACL Summer Institute is a three-day interactive experience that engages participants in wide-ranging discussions and activities that develop skills and approaches advancing consortium administration, planning, program development and resource cultivation. The Institute is geared to directors, staff, and board members of consortia. Chris Bass, Assistant Vice President of Spiritual and Cultural Life with the Claremont Colleges Services (TCCS); Sarah Kahrl, Executive Director of Five Colleges of Ohio; and Cole Woodcox, Executive Director at the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) are featured panelists. Beth Moy, Executive Director of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education; and Tim Newcomb, Coordinator of Operations for the Big Ten Academic Alliance, facilitate the session. Sarah, Cole and Chris represent a range of consortium types, geographic ranges and staff sizes.  All recently appointed to their positions, they share details about their Institute experiences and capstone projects -- from developing engagement strategies for biracial and multiracial students, to building board consensus around membership criteria, to developing action steps on strategic priorities identified by board members. They also share what happened when they returned home with their plans, key takeaways, and what they wish they had known before they attended.  

This week's episode features Petina Gappah, a writer and international lawyer from Zimbabwe. Thanks to the efforts of Chipo Dendere, Petina visited the Five Colleges earlier this year and we had a chance to sit down and talk. In addition to chatting about her forthcoming historical novel on David Livingstone's companions, we talk about Gappah’s award-winning book The Book of Memory, and her two collections of short stories, An Elegy for Easterly and Rotten Row. In our conversation, she shares why she became a writer and her approach to writing.  … More Ep42. A conversation with author Petina Gappah on politics, writing, and more

Our second program in this year's ACL series on measuring impact features a panel discussion with our colleagues Christine Kimball of The Five Colleges of Ohio, Cathy Wilt of the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, and Chuck Thompson of the Claremont University Consortium.  They shared approaches they use to measure and communicate the value of shared administrative programs to their consortial communities. As a result of participating in this interactive session, participants acquired models for setting project and service goals, prioritizing and selecting projects, measuring satisfaction and calculating the value of cost avoidance. Slides (and other episodes) are available for download at https://acl.site-ym.com/?page=webinars

For ACL members who couldn’t attend the conference, who missed a session, or who just want to be reminded of what they learned, the Virtual Professional Development Committee has compiled a “lightning round” podcast of multiple conference presenters sharing their top “take-aways” from their sessions, as well as any “a-ha!” moments from the conference. 1. Strategic Planning for Cooperation Beth Moy, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education 2. Building and Sustaining Cooperative Academic Programs R. Owen Williams, Associated Colleges of the South 3. Building and Sustaining Cooperative Administrative Programs Susan Palmer, Five Colleges of Ohio (interviewed by Diane Dimitroff) 4. The Strategic Use of Technologies to Support and Enhance Collaboration Tracy Thompson, NELLCO Law Library Consortium 5. Projects and Project Management Strategies Barbara McFadden Allen, Big 10 Academic Alliance(interviewed by Victoria McGillin) 6. Measuring Success: Assessing the Performance of a Consortium or Cooperative Projects Irene Burgess, Pennsylvania Consortium for the Liberal Arts (interviewed by Robert Diggs) 7. Communicating the Value of Collaborative Work Kevin Kennedy, Five Colleges, Inc. (interviewed by Victoria McGillin) Slides (and other episodes) are available for download at https://acl.site-ym.com/?page=webinars.

In this professional development webcast for consortium leaders, Diane Dimitroff (Executive Director, Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges) and Christine Kimball (Strategic Procurement Director, The Five Colleges of Ohio, Inc.) describe how to consider new administrative collaborations, including collaborative buying. Vicki McGillin (Independent Consultant on Higher Education Collaboration) moderates the program, which covers foundational or baseline principles and conversations. Listeners will learn: How to create a framework to start your collaborative buying exploration by defining your outcomes first, not your actions. Tips and tools for creating and maintaining momentum and commitment. Webcast slides (and other episodes) are available for download at https://acl.site-ym.com/?page=webinars.

What strategies are successful in managing your consortium board through changes in membership and leadership?  How do you bring new members up to speed? And how can you energize and engage your board? For this ACL webcast (now a podcast), we assembled an expert panel representing over 30 years of consortium leadership. They offer their take on one of the greatest challenges to consortium impact and success: transition. The dialog is guided by our guest moderator, Dr. Cathy Trower, a consultant, coach, and author of The Practitioner’s Guide to Governance as Leadership: Building High Performing Nonprofit Boards.   About the panelists: Neal Abraham is Executive Director of  Five Colleges, Inc. in Massachusetts, where he serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the consortium. For the 11 years prior to coming to Five Colleges in 2009, Neal served as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at DePauw University. Previously, he held appointments at Bryn Mawr College and Swarthmore College.   Barbara McFadden Allen is Executive Director of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), a consortium of 15 research universities including the members of the Big Ten Athletic Conference and the University of Chicago. Barb has been with the CIC for 21 years, including 5 years as director of their library initiatives, and 16 as executive director.   Christopher Welna is President of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) since 2006. He works with ACM’s two boards to set overall priorities and policies for programs to help strengthen the 14 member colleges as leaders, and exemplars, in liberal arts education. Prior to leading the ACM, Chris held appointments at the University of Notre Dame, Duke University, and the Ford Foundation.   About the moderator:   Cathy A. Trower is President of Trower & Trower, Inc., a board governance consulting firm, through which she has provided consulting and coaching services to more than 125 nonprofits. Cathy is author of The Practitioner’s Guide to Governance as Leadership: Building High Performing Nonprofit Boards (Jossey Bass 2013).  She spent 25 years in higher education as researcher, administrator, department chair and faculty member.  

JHK interviews Michael Klare, author or The Race For What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources. Michael is also the author of Resource Wars, and Blood and Oil. He runs the Department of Peace and Security Studies at Hampshire College, a program that also serves the Five Colleges organization which includes, Smith, Mt Holyoke, U. Mass, and Amherst. The KunstlerCast music is “Adam and Ali’s Waltz” from the recording Waiting to Fly by Mike and Ali Vass.

The Museums Concentration draws on the educational resource of the Smith College Museum of Art's collection of more than 23,000 original works of art, on the expertise of its professional staff, and on the exceptional academic programs of Smith College and the Five Colleges that support learning in this area.