Ken Burns is pushing to save Hampshire College. The filmmaker helps lead a fundraising campaign for his unconventional alma mater.
Filmmaker Ken Burns. By Nick Anderson Nick Anderson Reporter covering higher education, national education policy and the global education market Email Bio Follow May 3 at 9:00 AM Ken Burns doesn’t hesitate when asked to name his favorite course at Hampshire College: film and photography. He admired instructors Jerome Liebling and Elaine Mayes so much that he took it again. And again.
Hampshire is a different kind of school. It gives no letter grades, accepts no admission test scores, offers no predefined majors. Students chart their own paths and are required to conceive and complete ambitious projects before they graduate. New leadership is focused on cost-cutting and fundraising to stabilize and then revitalize a college that is projected to shrink significantly, from about 1,100 students this spring to about 600 in the fall.
He said when he calculated the size of his own gift, he first determined an amount that would be somewhat painful. “Then I multiplied it by four,” he said. His motto for raising money is “hurt times four.”
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