The Undergraduate Research Journal

Mission Statement
At the Consortium, we aim to endorse academic collaboration, dialogue, and friendship between Hampshire College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, UMass Amherst, Amherst College, and the Five College Community.

We are an online student run peer-reviewed publication that receives biannual submissions and rolling publication. For this process each submission will undergo blind review by a minimum of two student editors and one faculty editor. Once approved by all three, the submission will be published on the website where the page will serve as a hub for discussion and communication.

Founded at Hampshire College, we scheduled our meetings and our membership around Hampshire constraints, and ideals. In fact, the Consortium was created in hopes of spreading Hampshire ideals of inter- and cross-disciplinary engagement, of community and collaboration. It is our way of practicing Non Satis Scire. Through the Journal we will share knowledge, we will create a space that allows members of the valley to share their passions and connect with those with similar ones, and we will develop and grow as a community bridging gaps between the institutions, the students and faculty.

Past Accomplishments (during the last year, and this summer)

 * Met loosely four times during the F13 semester, where planning began on the EPEC
 * Successfully planned out, and oversaw an EPEC meeting twice a week, including writing and keeping to a syllabus, during the S14 semester
 * Designed and prepared the webpage and logo
 * Built a Facebook group and page with significant followings (well over 200 students in both cases)
 * Created and maintained outreach initiatives at Hampshire and the surrounding colleges, putting up flyers, designing advertising campaigns on Facebook around Hampshire and the surrounding community
 * Created the Submission Guidelines, the politics and policies and core structure of the publication including outreach, finance, and editorial boards.     *Recruited students from the colleges as well as interested a variety of student and faculty editors from the Five schools
 * Established a connection to work alongside the Five College Digital Humanities groups, working together with Professor Laura Lovett at UMass, and Jeffrey Moro, the Five College Digital Humanities Post-Graduate Fellow
 * Were recognized as a student group at Smith College (https://smith.collegiatelink.net/organization/FCURJ) and set the groundwork for student group recognition at Mount Holyoke and the University of Massachusetts: Amherst, and expect to achieve this status early Fall 2014
 * We have been in contact with Five College Consortium Director of Communication Kevin Kennedy to have the website be accessible for students through their college emails
 * Established relationships with a number of Undergraduate Research Journals across the Pioneer Valley and the Northeast, as well as other academic groups interested in collaborating with us
 * Connected with the founders and editors for a number of professional journals across the Five Colleges and the Northeast, including Lee Spector (Hampshire), Laura Lovett (UMass), Manisha Sinha (UMass), Susan Tracey (Hampshire), Bruce Laurie (Emeritus, UMass), John Castorino (Hampshire), Alice Andrews (SUNY: New Paltz), Charlie Donahue (UMass: Dartmouth), Margaret Meiman (Librarian, Smith), Thea Atwood (Librarian, formerly Hampshire, now, UMass). Caro Pinto (Librarian, Mount Holyoke), etc.
 * Established relationships with professors for recommendations for student editors, as well as to potentially help us edit papers across the Five Colleges, including but not limited to:
 * Hampshire: Lee Spector, Susan Tracey, Jill Lewis, John Castorino, Dula Amasiriwardena, Jonathan Westphal, Amy Jordan etc.
 * Mount Holyoke: Lynda Morgan, Susanne Mrozik etc.
 * Smith: Elizabeth Pryor, Elliot Fratkin, Paulette Peckol etc.
 * UMass: Manisha Sinha, Bruce Laurie, Laura Lovett, Bernhard Leidner etc.