The Social Engine
Abstract
The Social Engine SAGE Publications, Inc.1973DOI: 10.1177/108056997303600106 Stephen O. Mitchell Hampshire College This morning I would like to descrioe, briefly, computer training at Hampshire College, training which is very largely concerned with the social effects of computational devices. Before doing so, however, let me give you some of the basic facts concerning Hampshire. Hampshire College is new. It was founded in 1966 as a cooperative venture with Amherst , Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts. It will adroit its first 250 students in 1970. By 197~+ there will be 1,500 students and the number may, in ti11e, rise to 3,600. They will be undergraduate nen and women. There will be 26 faculty trith an eventual total of 90 to 100. Construction on the 550 acre campus in Au~herst and Hadley, Massachusetts began in August, 3 1968. Hampshire is experimenting. It was founded to serve as one model for the survival of the private college by exploring innovative solutions to the problems of undergraduate liberal arts education. It is also intended to demonstrate the educational and financial advantages of cooperative activity among four closely situated private colleges and a large public university. Some innovations in