Amherst College

About

This is the official Amherst College Facebook page, authored by the College and linked to from Amherst.edu.

Story

Amherst College educates young people of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek, value, and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence.

Visitor Guidelines:

Thank you for your interest! We welcome your comments and messages.

While we honor and respect open discussion, we also reserve the right to remove submissions that violate our community standards.

Examples of submissions that will be removed include:

-personal attacks of any kind;
-harassment, intimidation, disparagements or threats to any other person;
-promotions of bigotry or discrimination;
-vulgar, obscene or sexually explicit language;
-posts that are unnecessarily repetitive or copied into multiple threads;
-posts that are clearly off topic;
-promotions of products, services or political organizations;
-solicitations for external fundraising purposes;
-those that forge, maliciously disguise or misrepresent the poster’s identity;
-fraudulent or deceptive messages, including chain mail;
-infringements on copyrights or trademarks;
-promotions of illegal or unlawful activities.

We will also remove posts that violate any of Amherst College’s existing policies.

Please refer to the Social Media Guidelines for more information or email us at [email protected].

Mission

Terras irradient

“LET THEM GIVE LIGHT TO THE WORLD.”
1821

Amherst College educates men and women of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek, value, and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence.

Amherst brings together the most promising students, whatever their financial need, in order to promote diversity of experience and ideas within a purposefully small residential community. Working with faculty, staff, and administrators dedicated to intellectual freedom and the highest standards of instruction in the liberal arts, Amherst undergraduates assume substantial responsibility for undertaking inquiry and for shaping their education within and beyond the curriculum.

Amherst College is committed to learning through close colloquy and to expanding the realm of knowledge through scholarly research and artistic creation at the highest level. Its graduates link learning with leadership—in service to the College, to their communities, and to the world beyond.