AMHERST, Mass. — Amherst College will no longer give admissions preference to the children of alumni, the school announced Wednesday, ending a practice that has been criticized for giving an ...

Amherst College is another great example of how dreaming big for college can mean thinking small. Located in Massachusetts, a liberal arts college like Amherst offers an undergraduate education that ...

Campus leaders and student government officials at the private, preppy $90,000-a-year Amherst College in central ...

President John F. Kennedy spoke at Amherst College Oct. 26, 1963, less than a month before he was slain. The college is remembering that visit with and online and library exhibit. (Courtesy of Amherst ...

Manuela Picq goes to great lengths to get to know her students: class tea parties, smores-making sessions and one-on-one lunches. For Picq, an Amherst College professor, it is vital that her students ...

AMHERST — Kyndall Ashe and Haylee Price met at the beginning of their freshman year at Amherst College and quickly became inseparable. Though they went their separate ways after graduating in 2018, ...

Amherst College, the perennially top-ranked liberal arts college in Massachusetts, announced this week that its longtime unofficial mascot, Lord Jeffery Amherst. The move comes after protests last ...

Amherst College will contribute $2.5 million to the town of Amherst over the next three years to support local schools, emergency services, and infrastructure. The commitment, announced by Amherst ...

Andrew Dorogi, a senior tight end at Division III Amherst College, died last week during a spring break trip in Mexico City, officials at the Massachusetts college said in a statement. A U.S. State ...

Amherst College says it will stop using the controversial "Lord Jeff" as an unofficial mascot following complaints that the character is racist. The mascot is a caricature of Lord Jeffery Amherst, an ...

AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — The first woman to head Amherst College said she will step down at the end of the next academic year after serving as president for 11 years. Biddy Martin joined the college in ...