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Five College Ink Magazine
Five College Ink is a magazine of features and news that highlights current developments and issues involving the five colleges and Five College cooperation. It is issued once a year in fall.

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Ink is also available in printed form upon request from the Five College office (413-256-8316).

Latest Issue
The latest Five College Ink (PDF file) was printed in the spring of 2009 and features an interview with Lorna M. Peterson on the occasion of her retirement and a report on Five College African Scholars reuniting in Senegal at CODESRIA.

View also the Spring 2008 issue.

Previous Articles

Bridging the Divide: The Ivory Tower and the Island: About The Puerto Rican Studies Faculty/Community Seminar, which provides outreach from the five colleges to the Puerto Rican community in nearby Holyoke, Massachusetts.

One Foot in the Americas and One Foot Somewhere Else: A focus on the evolution of the Five College Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas (CISA) (Spring 2006 issue).

Mark Twain, Children's Theatre, & Saving Shakespeare: An article by Wayne Kramer, the 2004 Jackie Pritzen lecturer (Fall 2004 issue).

Masalski Sensei: An article about the Five College Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) and its director, Kathleen Woods Masalski (Spring 2001 issue).

A Whole New World: About the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages, which gives students the opportunity to assemble courses on less-commonly learned languages (Fall 2001 issue).

Up-Close, But Not in Person: An inside look at the new Five College Interactive Video Classrooms (IVC), and the teachers who use them. (Fall 2001 issue).

To Form a More Perfect Union: The Five College/Public School Partnership teams up with professors from the five colleges to examine innovative ways of teaching the American Revolution to students (Spring 2002 issue).

"In Our Own Backyard": An interview with the Five College Ethnomusicologists, and a look at the first Five College World Music Festival (Spring 2002 issue).

Knotted Ropes and Rosaries: Excerpts from the 2002 Jackie M. Pritzen lecture by Dana Leibsohn, associate professor of art at Smith College (Spring 2002 issue).

Music from the Heart: A tribute to Yusef Lateef who retired from teaching after 14 years of sharing his love of music with students at the five colleges. An award-winning composer, a performer who once played tenor saxophone and toured with Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldrige, and others of their ilk (Spring 2002 issue).

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