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Five College Consortium

Index Five College Consortium

The Five College Consortium comprises four liberal arts colleges and one university in the Connecticut River Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. [1]

54 relations: Amherst College, Amherst station (Massachusetts), Amtrak, Astronomy, Bradley International Airport, CBS, Claremont Colleges, Connecticut River, Continuing education, Cooperating Colleges of Greater Springfield, Dance, Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory, Fred Silverman, Frequency modulation, Greyhound Lines, Hampshire College, Hampshire Mall, Hanna-Barbera, Hertz, I Love a Mystery, Interlibrary loan, Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, Liberal arts colleges in the United States, Logan International Airport, Mark Evanier, Massachusetts Route 9, Maynard G. Krebs, Megabus (North America), Mount Holyoke College, Museums10, New Haven–Springfield Shuttle, Northampton Airport, Northeast Regional, NPR, Peter Pan Bus Lines, Pioneer Valley, Pioneer Valley Transit Authority, Saturday-morning cartoon, Scooby-Doo, Smith College, Springfield College (Massachusetts), Springfield Union Station (Massachusetts), The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Turners Falls Airport, UMassFive College Federal Credit Union, University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Massachusetts Transportation Services, Urban legend, ..., Vermonter (train), Western Massachusetts, WFCR, Women's studies. Expand index (4 more) »

Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.

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Amherst station (Massachusetts)

Amherst is a closed intercity rail station in Amherst, Massachusetts formerly served by the Amtrak Vermonter.

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to three Canadian cities.

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Astronomy

Astronomy (from ἀστρονομία) is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena.

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Bradley International Airport

Bradley International Airport is a civil/military airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, in Hartford County, Connecticut.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Claremont Colleges

The Claremont Colleges are an American consortium of five undergraduate and two graduate schools of higher education located in Claremont, California, a city east of downtown Los Angeles and west of downtown San Bernardino.

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Connecticut River

The Connecticut River is the longest river in the New England region of the United States, flowing roughly southward for through four states.

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Continuing education

Continuing education (similar to further education in the United Kingdom and Ireland) is an all-encompassing term within a broad list of post-secondary learning activities and programs.

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Cooperating Colleges of Greater Springfield

The Cooperating Colleges of Greater Springfield (CCGS) is an association of accredited colleges and universities located in Hampden County in Western Massachusetts, in and around the city of Springfield.

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Dance

Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.

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Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory

The Five College Radio Astronomical Observatory (FCRAO) was a radio astronomy observatory located on a peninsula in the Quabbin Reservoir.

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Fred Silverman

Fred Silverman (born September 13, 1937) is an American television executive and producer.

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Frequency modulation

In telecommunications and signal processing, frequency modulation (FM) is the encoding of information in a carrier wave by varying the instantaneous frequency of the wave.

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Greyhound Lines

Greyhound Lines, Inc., usually shortened to Greyhound, is an intercity bus common carrier serving over 3,800 destinations across North America.

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Hampshire College

Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Hampshire Mall

Hampshire Mall is a primarily one-story shopping mall with a small second floor in Hadley, Massachusetts, United States, with approximately 55 stores owned by The Pyramid Companies.

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Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. (simply known as Hanna-Barbera and also referred to as H-B Enterprises, H-B Production Company and Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc.) was an American animation studio that served as a division of Warner Bros. Animation until it was absorbed by them.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.

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I Love a Mystery

I Love a Mystery is an American radio drama series that aired 1939–44, about three friends who ran a detective agency and traveled the world in search of adventure.

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Interlibrary loan

Interlibrary loan (abbreviated ILL, and sometimes called interloan, interlending, document delivery, or document supply) is a service whereby a patron of one library can borrow books, DVDs, music, etc.

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Joe Ruby

Joseph Clemens Ruby (born March 30, 1933) is an American animator, television editor, writer, and producer; the co-founder with Ken Spears of television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions.

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Ken Spears

Charles Kenneth "Ken" Spears (born March 12, 1938) is an American television editor, writer, and producer; the co-founder with Joe Ruby of television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions.

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Liberal arts colleges in the United States

Liberal arts colleges in the United States are certain undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States.

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Logan International Airport

Logan International Airport, officially known as General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport and also commonly known as Boston Logan International Airport, is an international airport in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States (and partly in the town of Winthrop, Massachusetts).

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Mark Evanier

Mark Stephen Evanier (born March 2, 1952) is an American comic book and television writer, particularly known for his work on the animated TV series Garfield and Friends and on the comic book Groo the Wanderer.

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Massachusetts Route 9

Route 9 is a major east–west state highway in Massachusetts.

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Maynard G. Krebs

Maynard G. Krebs is the "beatnik" sidekick of the title character in the U.S. television sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963.

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Megabus (North America)

Megabus, branded as megabus.com, is an intercity bus service of Coach USA/Coach Canada and DATTCO (a non Stagecoach company, under contract) providing discount travel services since 2006, operating throughout the eastern, southern, midwestern, and western United States and in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

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Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women, in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.

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Museums10

Museums10 is a consortium of art, science, and history museums in Western Massachusetts.

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New Haven–Springfield Shuttle

New Haven–Springfield Shuttles are shuttle trains run by Amtrak between Springfield, Massachusetts, and New Haven, Connecticut, along Amtrak's New Haven–Springfield Line.

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Northampton Airport

Northampton Airport is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) northeast of central business district (CBD) of Northampton, a city in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA.

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Northeast Regional

The Northeast Regional is a regional rail service operated by Amtrak in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Peter Pan Bus Lines

Peter Pan Bus Lines is a long-distance/commuter bus carrier headquartered in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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Pioneer Valley

The Pioneer Valley is the colloquial and promotional name for the portion of the Connecticut River Valley that is in Massachusetts in the United States.

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Pioneer Valley Transit Authority

The Pioneer Valley Transit Authority (PVTA) oversees and coordinates public transportation in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts.

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Saturday-morning cartoon

Saturday-morning cartoon is a colloquial term for the original animated television programming that was typically scheduled on Saturday mornings in the United States on the major television networks.

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Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo is an American animated franchise, comprising many animated television series produced from 1969 to the present day.

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Smith College

Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college with coed graduate and certificate programs in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Springfield College (Massachusetts)

Springfield College is a private, coeducational college located in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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Springfield Union Station (Massachusetts)

Springfield Union Station is a train and bus station in the Metro Center area of Springfield, Massachusetts.

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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (also known as simply Dobie Gillis or Max Shulman's Dobie Gillis in later seasons and in syndication) is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1959, to June 5, 1963.

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Turners Falls Airport

Turners Falls Airport is a town owned, public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) north of the central business district of Montague, a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.

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UMassFive College Federal Credit Union

UMassFive College Federal Credit Union is a non-profit financial co-operative headquartered in Hadley, Massachusetts.

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University

A university (universitas, "a whole") is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in various academic disciplines.

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University of Massachusetts Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst (abbreviated UMass Amherst and colloquially referred to as UMass or Massachusetts) is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, and the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system.

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University of Massachusetts Transportation Services

University of Massachusetts Transportation Services, abbreviated to UMass Transit Services or UMass Transit, is a department within the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) that provides mass transit services to the UMass Amherst campus and other members of the Five Colleges Consortium in eastern Hampshire County, as well as outlying towns.

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Urban legend

An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend is a form of modern folklore.

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Vermonter (train)

The Vermonter is a passenger train operated by Amtrak between St. Albans, Vermont and Washington, D.C. via New York City.

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Western Massachusetts

Western Massachusetts is a region in Massachusetts, one of the six U.S. states that make up the New England region of the United States.

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WFCR

WFCR (88.5 MHz) is a non-commercial FM radio station licensed to Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Women's studies

Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods in order to place women’s lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppression; and the relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social locations such as race, sexual orientation, socio-economic class, and disability.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_College_Consortium

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