Five-College Student Coordinating Board

Statement of Purpose
The Five College Student Coordinating Board is a collaboration of students from Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Board serves as an enabling body to initiate, support, and promote interaction and cooperation among the institutions and their students. The Board can make recommendations to the Directors of the Five Colleges with proposals for improved cooperation.

Because of the wide range of academic, social, and recreational opportunities available within each institution and the Pioneer Valley, the Board is committed to:
 * Encouraging students to make full use of the opportunities and resources of all campuses
 * Improving communication about issues each campus faces and means to address them
 * Sponsoring events to encourage interaction and meet student needs and concerns
 * Assisting in the advertisement of events and activities at the other campuses

Current Projects
Currently, the FCSCB is working on revitalizing the board, which has not met in many years. All of us agree that there needs to be more communication between our campuses and we see the renewal of the FCSCB as the perfect opportunity for that to take place.

More specifically, we'd like to see more communication and collaboration between student groups on our campuses and improved social, academic and extra-curricular opportunities for Five-College students.

We would also like to work on clarifying and unifying various policies between the schools, for example parking and meal policies as well as easing the cross-campus class registration process.

Spring 2008

 * Hampshire College
 * Alex Torpey (09) Chair, Community Council
 * Smith College
 * Emily Taylor (08) President, Student Government Association
 * Mt. Holyoke College
 * Marissa Arnold (08) President, Student Government Association
 * Amherst College
 * Ayyappan Venkatraman (09) President, Association of Amherst Students
 * UMass Amherst
 * Aaron Buford (09) President, Student Government Association

Meeting Times

 * Hampshire College January 28th 2008 at 6pm in the Bradford Room in the Harold F. Johnson Library Center
 * Amherst College March 9th 2008 at 6pm in Keefe Campus Center Room 201
 * Smith College March 30th 2008 location TBA

Minutes

 * March 9th, 2008 Minutes [[Image:FCSCB minutes 3.09.2008.pdf]]