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Here’s a distilled guide to the changes explained in the #ReclaimAmherst Campaign. Read the full story here [https://admin.amherststudent.com/2020/07/30/reclaimamherst-and-the-promise-for-change/] . The college needs an institutional value statement that condemns racism and discrimination. The Board of Trustees needs two Black

For many Amherst students scattered across the globe in their remote learning locales, Wednesday, July 1 was spent pacing their rooms and refreshing their emails on the hour, every hour. It was not until a few minutes past 5:30 p.m. that day that the college shared its official

Plans for a traditional first-year orientation have been uprooted as the coronavirus pandemic continues to run rampant across the country, moving primarily to online platforms. Yet, even as the college has incrementally notified first-years about its tentative orientation programming, some have expressed a need for an in-person

As anti-racist protests spurred by the police killing of George Floyd on May 25 continue across the nation, calls for change are growing across the Amherst community. On the national level, students, alumni and the college itself have coordinated donation drives to support organizations working against anti-Black racism,