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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2019 The Boston Globe Metro B5

By Emily Sweeney
GLOBE STAFF
A Peter Pan bus driver who
was accused of locking a pas-
senger inside a luggage com-
partment of a bus in August is
no longer facing criminal
charges, her attorney said.
Wendy Alberty, 49, of New
Jersey, had been facing charges
of reckless endangerment and
unlawful restraint, as well as
breaching the peace.
“They were all dropped,”
said her attorney, Nate Baber.
“She should have never been
arrested in the first place.”
The incident was brought to
the attention of police by a 32-
year-old New York woman who
called 911 from the luggage
compartment of a Boston-
boundPeterPanbusonAug.4.
Connecticut State Police pulled
the bus over on Interstate 84,
just south of the Massachusetts
border.
According to the police re-
port, the woman who was in-
side the luggage compartment
told police that she had been
“purposely locked inside by a
female driver while attempting
to retrieve items from her bag.”
Alberty was then taken into
custody.
Boston Globe reporter Katie
Johnston, who was traveling
on the bus, had said the wom-
an may have been locked in the
compartment “close to an hour

orso”beforeshewasfreed.

“In retrospect, a few of us

remembered hearing a bang-

ing sound that must have been

her, and didn’t last long, but

didn’t think anything of it at

the time,” Johnston said.

“When the police pulled us

over, they opened both luggage

compartments — first the one

toward the front, which she

wasn’t in, then the rear one —

and stared into them for what

seemed like a few minutes, and

then suddenly, the woman ap-

peared,” Johnston said. “She

had her laptop open, and a

bunch of clothes pulled out of a

big backpackers’ backpack, and

a conga-like drum.”

Johnston said the woman

was wearing shorts and had a

colorful scarf around her neck;

she “didn’t seem to be in any

distress.”

Baber said Alberty had been

driving buses for many years

and had no record of incidents

or complaints until that point.

He said he believes the passen-

ger’s “misinterpretation” of

events was “improperly relayed

to police.”

“It was a crazy scenario,” he

said. “Obviously, the passenger

was very confused.”

Emily Sweeney can be reached

at [email protected].

Follow her on Twitter

@emilysweeney.

Peter Pan bus driver

no longer faces charges

By Laurie Loisel
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
AMHERST — Hampshire
College this week unveiled a
new educational model that
doubles down on iconic aspects
of a Hampshire education,
abolishing traditional academic
departments, introducing
team-taught seminars focused
around a central, urgent ques-
tion students and faculty come
up with together, and more ful-
ly integrating academic and
student life on campus.
Hampshire trustees ap-
proved the new model over the
weekend with enthusiastic sup-
port from faculty. President Ed
Wingenbach, with faculty, staff,
and students who worked on
the plan on hand, presented it
at a press conference Wednes-
day on campus.
In August, Wingenbach took
over as the eighth president of
Hampshire, the experimental
college founded in 1970 to re-
think the way liberal arts colleg-
es teach. His appointment

came after a tumultuous period

sparked last January when for-

mer president Miriam “Mim”

Nelson announced that the col-

lege, in dire financial condition,

was looking to merge or face

possibleclosing,afterwhich

trustees voted to not admit a

class this fall.

After much protest and or-

ganizing by alumni, faculty,

staff, and students that includ-

ed ambitious fund-raising cam-

paigns, Nelson and several

trustees resigned in April.

The announcement about

Hampshire’s new educational

program comes as Wingenbach

prepares to convince the New

England Commission of Higher

Education, the college’s accred-

iting body, that the school has

addressed concerns it raised in

May about the school’s gover-

nance and long-term financial

condition.

Wingenbach said he has no

doubt the commission will

agree that Hampshire’s finan-

cial plan is sound and board

governance practices healthy.

The new educational model,

which will launch in the fall of

2020, aims to make Hampshire,

always interdisciplinary in ap-

proach, even more so.

“It’s the next evolution of

Hampshire,’’ said Eva Rue-

schmann, dean of faculty and

vice president for academic af-

fairs. “We’re really building the

college around questions that

faculty and students and staff

will be collaboratively explor-

ing.”

The change will eliminate

the five interdisciplinary

schools Hampshire currently

offers. Instead, faculty will

work with each other and stu-

dents in a more fully integrated

way.

“They can think together

across their expertise,” said Ra-

chel Conrad, professor of child-

hood studies who has been at

the college for 25 years. “Yes,

we had some flexibility com-

pared to traditional institu-

tions, but we’re going further.

We want to think across knowl-

edge and practices. It’s break-

ing down barriers more.”

Conrad said breaking down

silos also applies to the tradi-

tional divisions between aca-

demics and student life as the

college helps students cultivate

skills needed to work collabora-

tively.

While Hampshire’s educa-

tional model of having students

create their own majors has

been a hallmark of the school, it

also has a downside.

“Every student carries

around their own major —

you’re a department of one,”

said Conrad. “That can be iso-

lating.”

Efforts to integrate academ-

ic affairs more with student life,

she said, will help students de-

velop skills to work together in

collaborative and innovative

ways.

Wingenbach said he believes

the new educational model will

attract more students in the

coming years after and on that

front, he said early numbers are

looking good.

So far, there are 45 appli-

cants for the coming spring se-

mester, compared to 17 who

had applied at this time last

year. For the fall of 2020, there

are 102 applicants, compared

to 74 at this time last year —

though the application dead-

line is months off still.

He said the financial plan he

will present to the accrediting

body uses conservative esti-

mates of enrollment that puts

Hampshire back at full enroll-

ment by 2024-25, with 1,100

students, and operating under

a balanced budget.

By comparison, this year’s

enrollment is 730 students.

The budget is reliant on rev-

enue derived from tuition; rent-

als of campus facilities like the

Red Barn, a popular wedding

venue; and increased fund-rais-

ing (from about $6 million an-

nually to about $9 million),

Wingenbach said.

On the expense side, he not-

ed, the plan requires a smaller

faculty and staff than the col-

lege has fielded in recent years.

He said for the next few years,

the staff would likely need to

stay at its current size, roughly

90 faculty and 200 staff, com-

pared to last year when there

were 130 faculty and 300 staff.

Wingenbach said he is work-

ing with trustees to think

through additional sources of

revenue, including possibly

drawing students from other

schools in for intensive eight- or

ten-week courses offered under

the new model.

Meanwhile, Chief Advance-

ment Officer Jennifer Chrisler

said the college is poised to an-

nounce a multi-year fund-rais-

ing campaign dubbed Cam-

paign for Hampshire, seeking

to raise $60 million by the year

2024-25. That figure includes

the $9.5 million already raised

in donations and pledges since

last spring in efforts to keep

Hampshire afloat. She said the

goal is realistic, especially con-

sidering the educational model

Wingenbach presented.

“This is a big, bold idea that

I think alumni, investors, and

philanthropic organizations

will get excited about,” she said.

“You won’t find another college

orienting itself this way, with

the commitment and nimble-

ness this faculty has taken on.”

Laurie Loisel can be reached at

[email protected].

Hampshire College’s Plan B doubles down on flexibility

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President Ed Wingenbach

said Hampshire College’s

financial plan is sound.

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