The recently-renovated Beatley Library is one of Simmons College's pride and joys. The building is five stories and contains room for up to 240,000 physical volumes, and features a state of the art system that allows the shelves to move apart and together to conserve space. The library contains a number of PCs and Macs for use by Simmons students, as well as protected wi-fi throughout the building.
In addition to books, Beatley Library is also home to numerous study and and conference rooms that are made available to students on request.
Simmons College Library participates in the Fenway Library Consortium, allowing their patrons to access books from other schools in the area as well as the Boston Public Libraries.

Overview From the Simmons website: Located in the heart of Boston in the Fenway neighborhood, Simmons College encompasses the many benefits of a small university in the nation's best "college town." For more than a century, Simmons has offered a pioneering liberal arts education for undergraduates integrated with professional work experience. Today, we also offer renowned coeducational graduate programs in health studies, education, liberal arts, communications management, social work, and library and information science. Our MBA program is designed specifically for women. Simmons is a member of the Colleges of the Fenway Consortium. At Simmons, we honor an educational contract to place students first. Our hands-on curriculum integrates intellectual leadership, career preparation, and community orientation, because all three approaches are necessary for success. We are proud of our welcoming, collaborative community that encourages dialogue, action, and respect—and that makes the Simmons experience as thoughtful as it is thought provoking. From the Simmons article on Wikipedia: Simmons College currently consists of three separate campuses located near the Back Bay Fens in Boston: Main Campus: The Main Campus is located at 300 The Fenway in the Longwood Medical Area. It is immediately adjacent to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Boston Latin School. This campus currently consists of five buildings: Simmons College Main College Building Simmons College Main College Building

• One Palace Road
• Main College Building
• Beatley Library
• Lefavour Hall
• Park Science Center

A great deal of construction is in progress on the main campus. In 2006, a major overhaul of Beatley Library was completed, and a large project to replace a surface parking lot with a large underground garage has begun. Above the new garage the college is constructing a new building on the main campus to house the School of Management, currently located on Commonwealth Avenue, and has also begun work on remodeling the Fens Cafeteria. Residence Campus The Residence Campus is located several blocks from the main campus. It is near the Landmark Center and the Fenway and Longwood MBTA stations. The residence campus consists of 13 buildings centered around a grassy quad:

• Simmons Hall
• Dix Hall
• Smith Hall (Quadside Cafe)
• Arnold Hall
• North Hall
• Health Center and Residence Life Offices
• Holmes Sports Center
• South Hall
• Alumnae Hall
• Bartol Dining Hall
• Evans Hall
• Mesick Hall
• Morse Hall

Most of the buildings on the residence campus serve as dormitories, but the campus also includes a large dining hall, a health center, a large fitness center, a public safety office, an auditorium, and several other facilities. The residence campus is separated from the main campus by Emmanuel College and Merck Research Laboratories Boston. School of Management The School of Management is in two buildings in Boston's Back Bay. These are:

• 409 Commonwealth Avenue
• 451 Marlborough Street

The School of Management is accessible from the Hynes Convention Center stop on the MBTA Green Line. In 2006, Simmons announced plans to build a new home for the School of Management on the main academic campus. Construction is underway. Neighborhoods Simmons calls the Fenway neighborhood home. However, it lies in the crossroads of a few other neighborhoods such as Mission Hill and Kenmore Square. Notable Alumni From Wikipedia: Nnenna Freelon, Gwen Ifill, Denise DiNovi, Elinor Lipman, Ann Fudge, Rebecca Miller Sykes, Lonnie Barbach, Sage Vivant, Audra Mika, Bertha Reynolds and Suzyn Waldman. For more information regarding Simmons College, visit Povo's Guide to Simmons College.

Wentworth Institute of Technology is a private, co-educational college of design and engineering. The institution was founded in 1904 by Arioch Wentworth and a group of seven esteemed colleagues as an attempt to promote education in mechanical engineering and mechancial arts, two fields they believed to be grossly underrepresented in the world of higher education. Whether they study construction management or interior design, Wentworth students are always working on projects that have both a theoretical and "real world" application. Most of their programs include some sort of co-op during the third year of study, much like their neighbor Northeastern University.
While Wentworth is known to be predominantly male-populated college, they do boast the first female president (Zorica Pantic) ever to lead a technical institute.
As a member of the Colleges of the Fenway, Wentworth shares its facilities and resources with other local schools, often hosting events and concerts for the COF. Their cafeteria, gym, courses, and athletic fields are open for access to anyone who can furnish a COF ID.
Check out Povo's Guide to Wentworth Institute of Technology. Wentworth's notable alumni include the politician Stephen Lynch and the actor Matt LeBlanc of Friend's fame.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design is a prestigious college of visual and applied art. Founded in 1873, Massachusetts College of Art - or Mass Art, as it is commonly called - is the only publicly funded art school left in the country. Located in Boston's Fenway area, on the border of Mission Hill, MassArt is one of the schools that make up the Colleges of the Fenway. Due to the nature of student work, many art exhibitions are held at the college and are open to the public. In addition, more established and well-known artists often present their work at Mass Art's galleries.
Check out Povo's Guide to Massachusetts College Of Art and Design. Mass Art is made up of six buildings: Kennedy, North, South, East, Collins, and Tower. From the Mass Art Wikipedia Article: Among the nation’s 39 independent schools of art and design, MassArt is the third most selective in undergraduate admissions and second most selective in graduate admissions, ranking among the ten most competitive colleges in Massachusetts, both public and private.[1] In 2006 was named one of the Top Global Design Schools by BusinessWeek magazine.[2] MassArt offers a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts, a Master of Science in Art Education, a Master of Fine Arts, and in 2007 received Candidacy Status for a Master of Architecture. It also offers a number of pre-college (both credit and non-credit) programs for high school students. Students at MassArt have the option of majoring in Fine Arts, 2D, Fine Arts, 3D, Communication Design, Environmental Design, Media and Performing Arts, and Art Education. Within those majors they can choose to focus on disciplines such as Industrial Design, Art History, Fashion Design, Architectural Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Animation, Painting, Printmaking, Ceramics, Glass, Sculpture, Fibers, Metals, Photography, Film/Video, and in the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM). MassArt's curriculum includes a foundation year, which provides compulsory exposure to the basics of 2D and 3D art and design, and requires an elective studio and multiple Critical Studies courses.