Hampshire College

Hampshire College is an "experimenting" private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education by four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (together with Hampshire they are known as the Five Colleges).

Alumni and faculty

Notable Hampshire College alumni include:

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• Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker, The Civil War, Baseball and Jazz
• Chuck Collins, political activist, co-founder of United For a Fair Economy
• John Falsey, television writer and producer, co-creator of St. Elsewhere and Northern Exposure
• Jon Krakauer, mountain climber and author, Into Thin Air and Into the Wild
• Jeff Maguire, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, In the Line of Fire
• Eugene Mirman, comedian
• Liev Schreiber, stage and screen actor, The Manchurian Candidate
• Elliott Smith, singer and songwriter
• Lee Smolin, theoretical physicist at the Perimeter Institute
• Danny Tamberelli, actor, The Mighty Ducks and television series All That and The Adventures of Pete and Pete

Notable past and present faculty include:

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• Eqbal Ahmad, post-colonial political scholar
• James Baldwin, writer
• Bill Brand, experimental filmmaker
• Mark Dresser, jazz musician, contrabass virtuoso
• Marty Ehrlich, jazz musician
• Norton Juster, architect and writer
• Yusef Lateef, jazz musician
• Michael Lesy, writer
• Jerome Liebling, filmmaker and photographer