In 1821, Amherst College was founded with the mission to educate “indigent
[poor] young men of piety and talents for the Christian ministry.” In the past
200 years, how has this mission been delivered, and how has it evolved? Managing
news editors Caelen McQuilkin and Sonia Chajet-Wides pose us this question, and,
in a two-part investigative series entitled “Accessing Amherst,” they deliver us
an answer. It's a worthy achievement that Amherst is the second-most-diverse LAC
in the nation, accordi