Community Advisor Applicants: Don’t Sign Contracts with Residential Life

Community Advisors (CAs) play a vital role in our campus community. We offer support, guidance and snacks to our residents.  We respond in times of crises and foster relationships and community. We take great pride in our work because giving back to this place that has given us so much is an honor. However, we find that we are asked time and time again to give more than we receive. The administration has consistently acted in bad faith in their conversations with CAs. By selectively using feedb

Workday Begins Replacing ACData, Modernizing College’s Business Processes

The college transitioned from ACData to the digital Workday system for human resources, finance and shared services business processes in early January. Workday is a cloud-based application software that was designed to centralize the storage and organization of Amherst workplace information. The process of moving from the decades-old ACData HR system to the Workday platform has been a monumental, two-year undertaking for the college administration, including the physical transfer of years of pe