FACTS ABOUT THE COLLEGES OF THE FENWAY
The six institutions that comprise the Colleges of the Fenway
are part of the Longwood Medical and Academic (LMA) area of
Boston, a densely populated 210-acre campus adjacent to the
neighborhoods of the Fenway and Mission Hill and to the town
of Brookline. The LMA has 40,000 employees, 18,200 students,
and more than 2.2 million patient visits each year.
The Colleges of the Fenway are home to more than 12,000
undergraduate students and 6,500 graduate students. This
represents 48.2% of Boston’s four-year small college enrollment
(defined enrollment
< 4,600). With 2,868 faculty and staff employees, The
Colleges of the Fenway accounts for 13% of the employees
in Boston’s
higher education field arena.
Each semester, more than 400 students cross-register for courses
within the six COF schools. Courses include Public Health,
Sign Language, Vocal Performance, A History of Boston, Strategies
of War and Peace, Photography, and a new, specially developed
Colleges of the Fenway course called Work and American Culture.
In addition to cross registration, joint activities for students
include:
Core programs of cross registration, faculty development
workshops, joint purchasing, and joint student programs form
the foundation of the COF. Colleges of the Fenway functions
as a coordinating agency which identifies new opportunities
for collaboration, provides organizational support and leadership
to agreed upon initiatives, enhances communication between
the members, and monitors and evaluates programs. |
