Amherst College

Amherst College educates men and women of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek, value, and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence.

Visitor Guidelines:

Thank you for your interest! We welcome your comments and messages.

While we honor and respect open discussion, we also reserve the right to remove submissions that violate our community standards.

Examples of submissions that will be removed include:

-personal attacks of any kind;
-harassment, intimidation, disparagements or threats to any other person;
-promotions of bigotry or discrimination;
-vulgar, obscene or sexually explicit language;
-posts that are unnecessarily repetitive or copied into multiple threads;
-posts that are clearly off topic;
-promotions of products, services or political organizations;
-solicitations for external fundraising purposes;
-those that forge, maliciously disguise or misrepresent the poster’s identity;
-fraudulent or deceptive messages, including chain mail;
-infringements on copyrights or trademarks;
-promotions of illegal or unlawful activities.

We will also remove posts that violate any of Amherst College’s existing policies.

Please refer to the Social Media Guidelines for more information or email us at social@amherst.edu.