Student Services

The Office of Student Services provides a broad range of student services and facilitates educational and campus life opportunities.

The dean of student services, Dawn Ellinwood, is responsible for the division of student services, including:


 * residential life
 * housing
 * student development
 * community wellness
 * public safety
 * outdoors program and recreational athletics (OPRA)
 * career options resource center (CORC)
 * dining services
 * health services

The senior associate dean of student services, Renee Freedman, oversees all aspects of residential life and disciplinary affairs. This includes supervision of the residential life staff and the housing coordinator. Together with members of the residential life staff, the associate dean ensures safe and comfortable housing in an environment that encourages students to grow and learn outside the classroom as well as within it.

The associate dean of student development oversees:


 * Campus Leadership and Activities
 * Community Council
 * the Cultural Center
 * the Women’s Center
 * the Queer Community Alliance Center
 * the Prescott Tavern
 * the Airport Lounge

The department of Student Development (associate dean: Stephen Pereira) sponsors initiatives that foster an appreciation for diverse cultures, backgrounds, and different perspectives while encouraging understanding, inclusiveness, and mutual respect. The associate dean also oversees the administration and proper use of the student activity fee funds, the performing arts fund at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, and the PVTA fare-free bus fee.

The assistant dean of student services, Josiah Litant, is responsible for overseeing the office of new student programs, which includes the college's biannual new student orientation program. New student programs is a new and developing student services initiative, designed to offer and augment the college's programs, services, and resources that are available for first-year and transfer students. In addition, the assistant dean serves as the advisor to the community review board, Hampshire's student judicial hearing board.