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{{Short description|Women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts.}}{{For|the private liberal arts colleges in Geneva, New York|Hobart and William Smith Colleges}}{{Infobox university
| image = Smith College seal.svg
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| motto = Ἐν τῇ ἀρετῇ τὴν γνῶσιν ([[Greek language|Greek]])
| mottoeng = To Virtue, Knowledge ({{Bibleverse|2 Peter|1:5|KJV}})<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/college-events/commencement/commencement-and-ivy-day-traditions |title=Commencement & Ivy Day Traditions |publisher=Smith College |access-date=
| established = {{start date and age|1871}} (opened {{start date and age|1875}})
| type = [[Private school|Private]] [[Liberal arts colleges in the United States|liberal arts]] [[Women's colleges in the United States|women's college]]
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| accreditation = [[New England Commission of Higher Education|NECHE]]
| president = [[Sarah Willie-LeBreton]]
| provost = [[Daphne Lamothe]]
| faculty = 285<ref name="justthefacts">[http://www.smith.edu/about_justthefacts.php Just the Facts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050512074309/http://www.smith.edu/about_justthefacts.php |date=May 12, 2005 }}, Smith College website.</ref>
| students = 2,873 (2022-23)<ref name=CDS_2022-23>{{cite web |url=https://www.smith.edu/sites/default/files/media/Office%20Images/Institutional-Research/Smith%20CDS%202022-2023--Published20March2023.pdf |title=Common Data Set 2022-2023 |publisher=Smith College |access-date= | undergrad = 2,523 (2022-23)<ref name=CDS_2022-23/>
| postgrad = 401 (fall 2018)<ref name=CDS_2018-2019>{{cite web |url= https://www.smith.edu/sites/default/files/media/Office%20Images/Institutional-Research/Smith%20College_Common%20Data%20Set%202018-2019_Version%201.pdf |title=Common Data Set 2018–2019 |publisher=Smith College |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105231541/https://www.smith.edu/sites/default/files/media/Office%20Images/Institutional-Research/Smith%20College_Common%20Data%20Set%202018-2019_Version%201.pdf|archive-date=January 5, 2019
| city = [[Northampton, Massachusetts]]
| country = U.S.
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| campus = Small-town
| colors = {{Color box|#002D62|border=darkgray}}{{Color box|#F1AB00|border=darkgray}} Blue with gold trim<ref name=Colors>{{cite web|title=Smith College:Visual Identity Program|url=http://www.smith.edu/vid/using.php|publisher=Smith College|access-date=
| sports_nickname = Pioneers
| athletics_affiliations = [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] [[Division III (NCAA)|Division III]] – [[New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference|NEWMAC]]
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'''Smith College''' is a [[Private university|private]] [[Liberal arts colleges in the United States|liberal arts]] [[Women's colleges in the United States|women's college]] in [[Northampton, Massachusetts]], United States. It was chartered in 1871 by [[Sophia Smith (Smith College)|Sophia Smith]] and opened in 1875. It is a member of the historic [[Seven Sisters (colleges)|Seven Sisters]] colleges, a group of women's colleges in the Northeastern United States. Smith is also a member of the [[Five College Consortium]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fivecolleges.edu |title=Five Colleges, Incorporated: Home |publisher=Fivecolleges.edu |access-date=
Smith has
Smith alumnae include notable authors, journalists, activists, feminists, politicians, investors, philanthropists, actresses, filmmakers, academics, businesswomen, CEOs, two [[list of first ladies of the United States|First Ladies of the United States]], and recipients of the [[Pulitzer Prize]], [[Rhodes Scholarship]], [[Academy Award]], [[Emmy Award]], [[MacArthur Grant]], [[Peabody Award]], and [[Tony Award]].
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=== Early history ===
[[File:Detroit_Photographic_Company_(0395).jpg|thumb|A view of Smith's campus c. 1900]]
The college was chartered in 1871 by a bequest of [[Sophia Smith (Smith College)|Sophia Smith]] and opened its doors in 1875 with 14 students and 6 faculty.<ref>[https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/smith-history/sophia-smith "Sophia Smith"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161211124848/https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/smith-history/sophia-smith |date=
{{Blockquote|text=I hereby make the following provisions for the establishment and maintenance of an Institution for the higher education of young women, with the design to furnish for my own sex means and facilities for education equal to those which are afforded now in our colleges to young men.}}
The campus was planned and planted in the 1890s as a [[botanical garden]] and [[arboretum]], designed by noted American landscape architect, [[Frederick Law Olmsted]].<ref name="100years">{{cite web|date=March 1, 2002
[[File:"Lt.(jg.) Harriet Ida Pickens and Ens. Frances Wills, first Negro Waves to be commissioned. They were members of the fin - NARA - 520670.tif|thumb|right|200px|[[Lieutenant (junior grade)|LTJG]] [[Harriet Pickens|Harriet Ida Pickens]] and [[Ensign (rank)|ENS]] [[Frances Wills]], first African-American [[WAVES]] to be commissioned. They were members of the final graduating class at USNR Midshipmen's School (WR) Northampton, Massachusetts on December 21, 1944.]]
During the 1920s, two students at the college went missing: junior [[Disappearance of Alice Corbett|Alice Corbett]] disappeared on November 13, 1925,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/press-and-sun-bulletin-smith-college-stu/135457117/ |title=Smith College Student Vanishes Strangely |agency=United Press |newspaper=[[Press & Sun-Bulletin]] |location=[[Binghamton, New York]] |page=1 |date=
By 2010, the school had 2,600 undergraduates on campus and 250 students studying elsewhere.<ref name="smith1">{{cite web |url=http://www.smith.edu/about_justthefacts.php |title=Smith College: Just the Facts |publisher=Smith.edu |access-date=
=== United States Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School ===
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=== 21st century ===
In April 2015, the faculty adopted an [[open-access policy]] to make its scholarship [[open access|publicly accessible]] online.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://roarmap.eprints.org/832/ |title=Smith College |journal=ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies |date=
On September 15, 2022, the Board of Trustees announced [[Sarah Willie-LeBreton]] had been selected as the 12th president of Smith College, effective July 1, 2023.<ref>{{cite press release |date=September 15, 2022 |title=Smith College Selects Sarah Willie-LeBreton, Swarthmore Provost and Scholar of Social Inequality and African-American Culture, as Its 12th President |url=https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/presidential-announcement/press-release |location=Northampton, Mass. |publisher=Smith College |access-date=July 16, 2023 |archive-date=July 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716013408/https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/presidential-announcement/press-release |url-status=live }}</ref>
=== Presidents ===
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* [[William Allan Neilson]] 1917–1939
* [[Elizabeth Cutter Morrow]] 1939–1940 (acting president)
* [[Herbert Davis (academic administrator)|Herbert Davis]] 1940–1949
* Benjamin Fletcher Wright 1949–1959
* [[Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian)|Thomas Corwin Mendenhall]] 1959–1975
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* [[Kathleen McCartney (college president)|Kathleen McCartney]] 2013–2023
* [[Sarah Willie-LeBreton]] 2023–Present
== Campus ==
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=== Environmental sustainability ===▼
{{Boosterism|what=section|date=November 2024}}[[File:Paradise Pond.jpg|thumb|Paradise Pond with portion of athletic fields visible (center left)]]▼
Smith has a contract with [[Zipcar]] in efforts to reduce individually owned-cars on campus. The college has also promoted sustainability through academics and through the arts.<ref name="smith.edu">{{cite web |title=Smith College: Green Smith |url=http://www.smith.edu/green/news.php |
All Smith dining locations have discontinued the use of disposable "to-go" supplies, instead encouraging students to bring their own reusable containers and utensils if they wish to bring food back to their rooms. Smith College provides all students with a reusable drink container at the beginning of each academic year. In past years, these containers have been variations on travel mugs, Sigg bottles, and Nalgene. Those dining halls that still offer "To-Go" options no longer provide paper bags and instead use wax paper bags, [[biodegradable plastic]], and recyclable utensils made of vegetable cellulose. In the fall of 2017, Smith dining halls began to offer plastic Tupperware containers students may borrow and return to the dining halls to be washed.▼
For Smith's efforts regarding sustainability, the institution earned a grade of A− on the "College Sustainability Report Card 2010" administered by the [[Sustainable Endowments Institute]]. Smith was lauded for many of the indicator categories, including student involvement, green building, and transportation, but was marked down for endowment transparency.<ref>{{cite web |
==Academics==
[[File:Smith_College_Campus_view.jpg|thumb|Smith's campus as it appears today]]
Smith College has 285 professors in
In 2008, Smith joined the [[Liberal arts colleges in the United States#SAT optional movement|SAT optional movement]] for undergraduate admission.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.masslive.com/metrowest/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-14/1211786427249410.xml&coll=1|title=Smith drops SATs|last=Contrada|first=Fred|date=May 26, 2008|publisher=MassLive.com|access-date=October 10, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625004817/http://www.masslive.com/metrowest/republican/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fnews-14%2F1211786427249410.xml&coll=1|archive-date=June 25, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=More colleges move toward optional SATs|url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/30/test.drop/|access-date=February 24, 2021
Smith runs its own junior year abroad (JYA) programs in four European cities: [[Paris]], [[Hamburg]], [[Florence]], and [[Geneva]].<ref>[http://www.smith.edu/studyabroad/jya.php Smith College: Study Abroad] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719145941/http://www.smith.edu/studyabroad/jya.php |date=
Junior math majors from other undergraduate institutions are invited to study at Smith College for one year through the [[Center for Women in Mathematics]]. Established in the fall of 2007 by Professors [[Ruth Haas]] and Jim Henle, the program aims to allow young women to improve their mathematical abilities through classwork, research, and involvement in a department centered on women. The [[Center for Women in Mathematics|Center]] also offers a post-baccalaureate year of math study to women who did not major in mathematics as undergraduates or whose mathematics major was not strong.<ref>[http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/NAM/newsletter/NAM38.1.pdf "Smith College Women in Mathematics Program" National Association of Mathematicians, Spring 2007] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080910095330/http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/NAM/newsletter/NAM38.1.pdf |date=
The Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute supports collaborative research without regard to the traditional boundaries of academic departments and programs. Each year the institute supports long-term and short-term projects proposed, planned, and organized by members of the Smith College faculty. By becoming Kahn Fellows, students get involved in interdisciplinary research projects and work alongside faculty and visiting scholars for a year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smith.edu/kahninstitute/ |title=Smith College: Kahn Liberal Arts Institute |publisher=Smith.edu |access-date=
Students can develop leadership skills through Smith's two-year Phoebe Reese Lewis Leadership Program. Participants train in public speaking, analytical thinking, teamwork strategies, and the philosophical aspects of leadership.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smith.edu/acad_specialleadership.php |title=Smith College: Academic Programs |publisher=Smith.edu |access-date=
Through Smith's internship program, "Praxis: The Liberal Arts at Work," all undergraduates are guaranteed access to one college-funded internship during their years at the college. This program enables students to access interesting self-generated internship positions in social welfare and human services, the arts, media, health, education, and other fields.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smith.edu/acad_specialpraxis.php |title=Smith College: Academic Programs |publisher=Smith.edu |access-date=
Its most popular undergraduate majors, based on 2021 graduates, were:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=smith&s=all&id=167835#programs |website=nces.ed.gov |publisher=U.S. Dept of Education |title=Smith College |access-date=February 16, 2023 |archive-date=February 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230216180547/https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=smith&s=all&id=167835#programs |url-status=live }}</ref>
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===Ada Comstock Scholars Program===
[[File:Ada-Comstock-1905.jpg|thumb|Ada Comstock, class of 1897]]
The Ada Comstock Scholars Program is an undergraduate degree program that serves Smith students of [[Non-traditional student|nontraditional college age]]. The program accommodates approximately 100 women ranging in age from mid-twenties to over sixty. Ada Comstock Scholars attend the same classes as traditional undergraduates, either full or part-time, and participate fully in a variety of extracurricular activities. They may live on or off campus. Financial aid is available to each Ada Comstock Scholar with demonstrated need.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smith.edu/admission/ada.php|title=Smith College: For Nontraditional Students|publisher=Smith College|access-date=April 23, 2015
Beginning in 1968, with the approval of the Committee on Educational Policy, Smith College initiated a trial program loosely titled ''The Continuing Education Degree'' for several women of non-traditional age who were looking to complete their unfinished degrees. Their successes inspired President [[Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian)|Thomas C. Mendenhall]] and Dean Alice Dickinson to officially expand the program. In January 1975, the Ada Comstock Scholars Program has formally established under President [[Jill Ker Conway]] and in the fall of that year, forty-five women were enrolled. The students range in age, background, and geographical location. The growth of the program peaked at just over 400 students in 1988.
The program is named for [[Ada Comstock|Ada Louise Comstock Notestein]] (1876–1973), an 1897 Smith graduate, professor of English and dean of Smith from 1912 to 1923, and president of [[Radcliffe College]] from 1923 to 1943. Ada Comstock Notestein devoted much of her life to the academic excellence of women. Considering education and personal growth to be a lifelong process, she stayed actively involved in women's higher education until her death at the age of 97.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smith.edu/classdeans/adas_history.php|title=Smith College: Class Deans|publisher=Smith College|access-date=April 23, 2015
=== Graduate degrees and study options ===
[[File:Lilly_Hall_-_Smith_College_-_Northampton,_MA_-_DSC02116.jpg|thumb|The [[Smith College School for Social Work]] is housed in Lily Hall.]]
Smith's graduate program is open to applicants of any gender. Degrees offered are Master of Arts in teaching (elementary, middle or high school), master of fine arts, master of education of the deaf, Master of Science in biological sciences, Master of Science in exercise and sport studies and master and Ph.D. in social work. In special one-year programs, international students may qualify for a certificate of graduate studies or a diploma in American studies. Each year approximately 100 men and women pursue advanced graduate work at Smith.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smith.edu/gradstudy/degrees.php |title=Smith College: Graduate Study |publisher=Smith.edu |access-date=
Also offered as a non-degree studies program is the Diploma in American Studies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smith.edu/gradstudy/nondegree.php |title=Smith College: Graduate Study |publisher=Smith.edu |access-date=
The [[Smith College School for Social Work]] is nationally recognized for its specialization in clinical social work and puts a heavy emphasis on direct field work practice. The program is accredited by the [[Council on Social Work Education]]. The school offers a Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) degree as well as a Ph.D. program designed to prepare MSWs for leadership positions in clinical research education and practice.
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}}-->The 2022 annual ranking of ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' categorizes Smith as 'most selective'.<ref>{{cite magazine|year=2019|title=U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings: Smith College|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/smith-college-2209|url-status=live|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702140454/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/smith-college-2209|archive-date=July 2, 2019|access-date=July 2, 2019}}</ref>
For the Class of 2027 (enrolling fall 2023), Smith received 9,868 applications (reflecting a 36 percent increase over last year), accepted 1,875 (19.0%), and enrolled 630. Smith’s applicant pool has increased 36 percent over the past year, which the college attributes to the decision to move to ‘loan-free’ financial aid.<ref name="CDS">{{cite web|title=A Record-Breaking Admission Season, Part C|url=https://www.smith.edu/news/record-breaking-2023-admission-season|access-date=
===Rankings===
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''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'''s 2021 rankings placed Smith tied for the 15th overall best liberal arts college in the U.S., and rated it eighth for "Best Value", tied for 17th in "Best Undergraduate Engineering Program" at schools where doctorate not offered, tied for 19th in "Best Undergraduate Teaching", and tied for 94th in "Top Performers on Social Mobility".<ref>{{cite web|year=2021|title=Smith College Rankings|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/smith-college-2209/overall-rankings|access-date=October 15, 2020|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|archive-date=November 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191124141821/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/smith-college-2209/overall-rankings|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019, ''[[Forbes]]'' rated Smith 81st overall in its America's Top Colleges ranking of 650 military academies, national universities, and liberal arts colleges.<ref>{{cite web|date=August 15, 2019|title=America's Top Colleges|url=https://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/list/|access-date=September 12, 2019|magazine=Forbes|archive-date=August 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120804145514/http://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/list/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Kiplinger's Personal Finance]]'' places Smith 16th in its 2019 ranking of 149 best value liberal arts colleges in the United States.<ref>{{cite magazine|date=July 2019|title=Kiplinger's Best College Values|url=https://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-best-college-values-college-finder/index.php#Table|url-status=live|magazine=Kiplinger's Personal Finance|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190823230821/https://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-best-college-values-college-finder/index.php#Table|archive-date=August 23, 2019
==Traditions==
===Residential culture and student life===
Smith requires most undergraduate students to live in on-campus houses unless they reside locally with their families. This policy is intended to add to the camaraderie and social cohesion of its students. Unlike most institutions of its type, Smith College does not have dorms, but rather
Two cultural spaces on campus are used by students of color to build their community: the Mwangi Cultural Center and Unity House. Mwangi originally opened as the Afro-American Cultural Center in 1968 but was later renamed in honor of the first female physician in Kenya, and Smith alum, Dr. Ng’endo Mwangi ('61). After loaning Mwangi to the other cultural organizations on campus for four years, the Black Students’ Alliance decided to reclaim Mwangi in April 1990.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} Leaders, members, and supporters of cultural organizations got together to form a group called UNITY, in October of the same year, to demand a space for other cultural organizations. Today, Unity House serves as a home to the 11 cultural organizations on campus.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
[[File:SmithCollegeCampusCenter.jpg|thumb|The Julia McWilliams Child '34 Campus Center at Smith College.]]
Two recent additions to the campus, both of which enhance its sense of community, are the architecturally dramatic Julia McWilliams Child '34 Campus Center<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smith.edu/campuscenter/ |title=Smith College: Office of Student Engagement |publisher=Smith.edu |access-date=
In 2009, construction was also completed on Ford Hall, a new science and engineering facility. According to the Smith College website, Ford Hall is a "...facility that will intentionally blur the boundaries between traditional disciplines, creating an optimum environment for students and faculty to address key scientific and technological developments of our time." The building was officially dedicated on October 16, 2009.<ref>Ford Hall: http://www.smith.edu/fordhall/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305171516/http://www.smith.edu/fordhall/ |date=March 5, 2010
The campus also boasts a botanic garden that includes a variety of specialty gardens including a rock garden and historic glass greenhouses dating back to 1895. The botanic garden formerly featured a Japanese tea hut, which was removed in October 2015 following concerns over "issues of safety and vandalism."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smith.edu/news/announcement.php?id=26939|title=Smith College: Grecourt Gate Announcement|website=www.smith.edu|access-date=October 12, 2016
Smith offers "panel discussions and seminars for lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students on subjects such as coming out as transgender at work."<ref>{{cite web|date=April 8, 2007|title=When She Graduates as He|publisher=Boston Globe|url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/04/08/when_she_graduates_as_he/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090127062345/http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/04/08/when_she_graduates_as_he/ |archive-date=
Until 2013, transgender women were not allowed to attend Smith unless all their legal documentation consistently stated they were female. This policy came to public attention in March 2013 when Smith rejected the application of a [[trans woman]] named Calliope Wong. In the rejection letter, Smith's Dean of Admission Debra Shaver wrote "Your [[FAFSA]] indicates your gender as male. Therefore, Smith cannot process your application." This policy was changed in 2013 to only require all nonlegal application materials to indicate a female identity, including references. Not satisfied with the change, students as well as various alumni formed the group Q&A ("Queers and Allies") to advocate for more trans-inclusive policies.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Drew|first=Sophie|title=Challenging Gender at a Women's Institution: Transgender Admission and Inclusion at Smith College|journal=Women Leading Change |volume=3|pages=25–36}}</ref> Q&A subsequently protested the policy on [[Facebook]] and other [[social media]] websites, as well as staging protests on campus that garnered significant media attention.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/students-at-smith-protest-the-colleges-refusal-to-admit-tran|title=Students At Smith Protest The College's Refusal To Admit Transgender Women|last=Yandoli|first=Krystie Lee|website=BuzzFeed|date=
In the fall of 2018, students at Smith protested after a Smith employee called the police on a black student working at Smith over the summer when the employee saw her in a common space. Organized by the Black Students’ Alliance and the Smith African & Caribbean Students Association, students protested and walked out of the annual Smith [[convocation]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/09/05/protests-mark-start-new-semester-smith-college/RCtAtCTdwGV28AhdWxygcM/story.html|title=Protests mark start of the new semester at Smith College |last=Fern|first=Deirdre|website=The Boston Globe|language=en-US|access-date=
In October 2020, Smith alumna Jodi Shaw, then Student Support Coordinator in the Department of Residence Life, began posting videos commenting on mandated diversity training for staff at Smith College on her YouTube channel. Shaw characterized the training as contributing to a climate of "harassment, discrimination, and hostility" at the college, especially for staff.<ref name=GazetteShaw/> On February 19, 2021, columnist [[Bari Weiss]] published Shaw's resignation letter on Weiss's [[Substack]] blog. In it, Shaw described the implementation of the training as "psychologically abusive" and the culture as "deeply hostile and fearful." She alleged that the college had "offered a settlement in exchange for my silence, but I turned it down".<ref name=GazetteShaw>{{cite journal |url=https://www.gazettenet.com/Smith-39030411 |title=Smith College denies ex-employee's claim that it's hostile to white people |author=Greta Jochem |journal=Daily Hampshire Gazette |date=
On February 24, 2021, the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported on worsening tensions between students, staff, and administrators around issues of racial justice and the college's diversity training. President McCartney stated that "Good training is never about making people too uncomfortable or to feel ashamed or anything. I think our staff is content and are embracing it." A former janitor told the paper that he had gone through numerous training sessions in race and intersectionality at Smith and that they had left staff workers cynical.<ref>{{cite news |work=The New York Times |title=Inside a Battle Over Race, Class and Power at Smith College |author=Michael Powell |date=February 24, 2021
====Houses====
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* Hubbard House – Hubbard House is the residence of fictional President [[Selina Meyer]] from the HBO Show ''[[Veep]]''. [[Julia Child]] resided in this house during her time at Smith.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Julia Child Rules: Lessons On Savoring Life|last=Karbo|first=Karen|publisher=Globe Pequot Press: Morris Publishing Group|year=2013|isbn=9780762783090|location=Guilford, Connecticut|pages=[https://archive.org/details/juliachildrulesl0000karb/page/47 47–48]|url=https://archive.org/details/juliachildrulesl0000karb/page/47}}</ref>
* Lawrence House – Sylvia Plath resided in this house during her time at Smith.
* Morris House – Morris was built in 1891, with its sister house Lawrence to help accommodate the growing student body. It is named after Kate Morris Cone, Smith College class of 1879.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kimball Union Archives ~ Kate Eugenia Morris (Cone), Class of 1875|date=
* Tyler House – Named after [[William Seymour Tyler]], one of the original trustees of the college.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tyler House|url=https://www.smith.edu/student-life/residence-life/houses/tyler-house|access-date=September 2, 2021
* Washburn House – Washburn is named for former trustee and senator [[William B. Washburn]]. During the Second World War, the house served as a Spanish-speaking residence for students unable to study abroad.
* 44 Green Street
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=====Center Campus houses=====
* Cutter House
* Chapin House – Author [[Margaret Mitchell]] lived here. Chapin's staircase served as the inspiration for the staircase of Scarlett O'Hara's Tara in ''[[Gone with the Wind (novel)|Gone With the Wind]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smith.edu/reslife/houses_green_chapin.php|title=Smith College: Residence Life|website=www.smith.edu|access-date=March 5, 2018
* Haven/Wesley Houses
* Hopkins House
* Park Complex
**Park Annex – one of two new Affinity houses at Smith College, houses that cater to minority identities on campus.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smith.edu/student-life/residence-life/houses/park-annex|title=Student Life – Res Life – Smith Houses – Center Campus – Park Annex|website=Smith College|language=en|access-date=November 19, 2019
* Sessions Complex – the oldest house on the Smith campus. It has a secret passageway.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smith.edu/student-life/residence-life/houses/sessions-complex|title=Sessions Complex|website=Smith College|access-date=October 15, 2020
* Tenney House
* Ziskind House
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=====Upper Elm Street houses=====
[[File:The Botanic Garden of Smith College.jpg|thumb|200px|upright|The Botanic Gardens at Smith College]]
* Capen House – Built in 1825 by Samuel Howe, the founder of [[Northampton Law School]], it became part of the Capen School in 1883 and was willed to the college by the school's founder in 1921. It is designed in the [[Neoclassical architecture|Classical Revival]] style.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lincoln |first=Eleanor T. |title=This, The House We Live In |publisher=Smith College|date=1983 |location=Northampton, MA |isbn=0-87391-030-3 |pages=112–115}}</ref> It is named after the founder of the Capen School, Bessie Talbot Capen.
* Gillett House – Connected to Northrop house via a breezeway, Gillett houses the only vegan/vegetarian dining hall on campus.
* Lamont House – Built in 1955, Lamont House was the first house constructed after the construction of the Quad houses in 1936. Named for alumna Florence Corliss Lamont, who earned her A.B. in 1893 and later an M.A. from Columbia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smith.edu/reslife/houses_upperelm_lamont.php|title=Smith College: Residence Life|publisher=Smith College|access-date=February 7, 2014
* Northrop House
* Parsons Complex
**Parsons Annex – one of two new Affinity houses at Smith College, houses that cater to minority identities on campus.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smith.edu/student-life/residence-life/houses/parsons-annex|title=Student Life – Res Life – Smith Houses – Green Street – Parsons Annex|website=Smith College|language=en|access-date=November 19, 2019
* Talbot House – Built in 1909 as part of the Capen School, it was willed to the college in 1921. Its mascot is the moose.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smith.edu/reslife/houses_upperelm_talbot.php|title=Smith College: Residence Life|publisher=Smith College|access-date=February 7, 2014
=====Lower Elm Street houses=====
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* Chase House – Once a school for girls from the 1870s until 1968 when it was acquired as housing for the college. It was once a Junior & Senior only house and now serves as a substance-free residence. Named after Mary Ellen Chase, a writer, and English professor.
* Conway House – A residence for Ada Comstock Scholars and their families, named after Smith President [[Jill Ker Conway]]
* Duckett House - built in 1803, Duckett house is one of the oldest buildings on campus. Aside from affinity housing and special housing (Friedman’s, family complexes, co-ops, etc.) it is the smallest traditional house, with only 36 residents. Residents in Duckett are known as “Ducks”, which is also the official mascot of the house. There is also a “duck shrine” in the common room, where small miniature ducks face a larger stuffed-animal duck. It is a long-held tradition for alums to leave small rubber ducks with their class year and initials on the table of the shrine, often the rubber duck you were gifted in your first year. The house is named for Eleanor Duckett, who taught in the English department at Smith in the 20th century. Per Eleanor Duckett’s journals and writing, recovered in the Smith special collections, Duckett was the "life-long partner: of fellow English professor, Mary Ellen Chase. Many students joke that this is why Chase and Duckett houses are conjoined, existing together, but separately, in one building complex.
* 150 Elm Street
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* Cushing House – named for math professor [[Eleanor P. Cushing]]; Gloria Steinem resided here during her time at Smith.
* Emerson House
* Jordan House – Built in 1922 and named for the longtime head of the Smith English Department, [[List of feminist rhetoricians#Mary Augusta Jordan|Mary Augusta Jordan]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Johnson |first=Colton |title=Mary Augusta Jordan |url=http://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/alumni/mary-augusta-jordan.html |encyclopedia=Vassar Encyclopedia |access-date=
* King House – Named for Franklin King, who served as the superintendent of building and grounds at Smith for 50 years<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smith.edu/reslife/houses_eastquad_king.php|title=Smith College: Residence Life|publisher=Smith College|access-date=August 15, 2015
* Scales House -King's "sister house," was named after [[Laura Scales|Laura Woolsey Lord Scales]], who graduated from Smith in 1901 and was the school's first dean of students<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smith.edu/reslife/houses_eastquad_scales.php|title=Smith College: Residence Life|publisher=Smith College|access-date=August 15, 2015
=====West Quadrangle houses=====
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====Campus folklore====
Smith has numerous folk tales and ghost stories emerging from the histories of some of its historic buildings. It was named the most haunted college in America by College Consensus.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.collegeconsensus.com/rankings/most-haunted-colleges/|title=TOP 10 MOST HAUNTED COLLEGES IN AMERICA|date=
====Clubs, sports, and organizations====
In addition to its 11 varsity sports,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://smithpioneers.com/|website=Smith Pioneers|title=Smith Pioneers|access-date=
=====Athletics=====
Smith's athletic teams have been known as the Pioneers since 1986. The name expresses the spirit of Smith's students and the college's leading role in women's athletics (the first women's basketball game was played at Smith in 1893).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smith.edu/video/smith-first-new-game-basketball|title=A Smith First: The New Game of Basketball|website=Smith College|language=en|access-date=
A new spirit mark was unveiled to the Smith community in December 2008. The new visual identity for Smith's sports teams marks the culmination of a yearlong project to promote visibility and enthusiasm for Smith's intercollegiate and club teams—and to generate school spirit broadly. The spirit mark is used for athletics uniforms, casual apparel, and promotional items for clubs and organizations. As Smith was the first women's college to join the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]], the new mark is seen as linking the college's pioneering alumnae athletes to their equally determined and competitive counterparts today. Smith athletes won some of the early national [[NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championship#Singles and Doubles Championships (1922–1982)|intercollegiate women's tennis championships]] in singles (Louise Raymond, 1938 and 1939) and doubles (1933, 1935, 1938 and 1948).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tennisforum.com/threads/pre-ncaa-womens-collegiate-tennis.1378268/|title=Pre-NCAA women's collegiate tennis|website=Tennis Forum|access-date=
Smith College does not have college colors in the usual sense. Its official color is white, trimmed with gold, but the official college logo is blue and yellow (a previous logo was burgundy and white). NCAA athletic teams have competed in blue and white (or blue and yellow, in the case of the soccer, crew, swimming, and squash teams) uniforms since the 1970s and selected Pioneers as the official name and mascot in 1986. Popular club sports are free to choose their own colors and mascot; both Rugby and Fencing have chosen red and black.
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'''[[Convocation]]''' signals the start of the fall semester. For new students, it is the first chance to experience Smith College's tradition and spirit. Likewise, for some returning students, the annual event is like a big, welcome-home party as well as an occasion for celebration and an opportunity for creative attire. House communities develop imaginative themes for group fashion, and Smith seniors put special touches on favorite hats to create their own unique "senior hats," to be worn for the first time at Convocation.
'''[[Mountain Day]]''' is observed early in the fall semester. The president of the college selects a crisp, sunny, beautiful autumn day when the leaves are in full color, and announces the cancellation of classes by having bells rung on campus at 7:15 AM on the chosen day. The eager anticipation of Mountain Day leads to intense speculation about meteorology by students in the weeks leading up to the surprise announcement. Traditional observance of Mountain Day by students might involve [[New England]] road trips or outdoor pursuits, and college dining services provides box lunches to be taken off-campus. Many of the Houses go apple
'''[[Otelia Cromwell|Cromwell]] Day''', named for Smith's first African-American student, Otelia Cromwell, and her niece Adelaide Cromwell, began in 1989 to provide students with an in-depth program specifically addressing issues of racism and diversity. Afternoon classes are canceled, and students are invited to participate in lectures, workshops, symposia, and cultural events focused on a different theme each year. In 2020, Otelia Cromwell Day was renamed "Cromwell Day" to simultaneously honor Otelia Cromwell's niece [[Adelaide Cromwell]], Smith College's first African-American faculty member.
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There have been several controversies surrounding commencement over the years. See [[Smith College commencement controversies]] to learn more.
▲==Environmental sustainability==
▲[[File:Paradise Pond.jpg|thumb|Paradise Pond with portion of athletic fields visible (center left)]]
▲Smith has a contract with [[Zipcar]] in efforts to reduce individually owned-cars on campus. The college has also promoted sustainability through academics and through the arts.<ref name="smith.edu">{{cite web |url=http://www.smith.edu/green/news.php |title=Smith College: Green Smith |publisher=Smith.edu |access-date=2010-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100930235407/http://www.smith.edu/green/news.php |archive-date=2010-09-30 |url-status=live }}</ref>
▲All Smith dining locations have discontinued the use of disposable "to-go" supplies, instead encouraging students to bring their own reusable containers and utensils if they wish to bring food back to their rooms. Smith College provides all students with a reusable drink container at the beginning of each academic year. In past years, these containers have been variations on travel mugs, Sigg bottles, and Nalgene. Those dining halls that still offer "To-Go" options no longer provide paper bags and instead use wax paper bags, [[biodegradable plastic]], and recyclable utensils made of vegetable cellulose. In the fall of 2017, Smith dining halls began to offer plastic Tupperware containers students may borrow and return to the dining halls to be washed.
▲For Smith's efforts regarding sustainability, the institution earned a grade of A− on the "College Sustainability Report Card 2010" administered by the [[Sustainable Endowments Institute]]. Smith was lauded for many of the indicator categories, including student involvement, green building, and transportation, but was marked down for endowment transparency.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.greenreportcard.org/report-card-2010/schools/smith-college |title=Smith College – Green Report Card 2010 |publisher=Greenreportcard.org |date=2008-06-30 |access-date=2010-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620201946/http://greenreportcard.org/report-card-2010/schools/smith-college |archive-date=2010-06-20 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Notable alumnae==
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File:Margaret Mitchell NYWTS.jpg|[[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning writer [[Margaret Mitchell]]
File:Sylvia Plath.jpg|[[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning writer [[Sylvia Plath]]
File:Poświatowska, circa 1954-1956.jpg| Polish poet [[Halina Poświatowska]]
File:Julia Child portrait by ©Lynn Gilbert, 1978.jpg|Chef and television personality [[Julia Child]]
File:Nancy Reagan.jpg|40th [[First Lady of the United States]] [[Nancy Reagan]]
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* [[Lynden B. Miller]] (class of 1960): public garden designer, park advocate, and author
* [[Jane Yolen]] (class of 1960): children's book author
* [[Susan Hiller]] (class of 1961): conceptual artist
* [[Ng'endo Mwangi|Ng'endo (Florence) Mwangi]] (class of 1961): Kenya's first woman physician
* [[Anne Mollegen Smith]] (née Anne Rush Mollegen), (class of 1961), first woman editor-in-chief of [[Redbook]]<ref name='Hamper-1961-Mollegen'>{{cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/259798867:1265|title=1961 Hamper "Anne Rush Mollegen" (Smith College, Poughkeepsie, New York)|author=<!--Not stated--> |date=1961 |page=158|website=Ancestry.com |publisher=Generations Network|url-access=subscription|access-date=
* [[Halina Poświatowska]] (class of 1961): Polish poet and writer
* [[Jane Harman]] (class of 1966): U.S. Representative for California's 36th Congressional District
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* [[Durreen Shahnaz]] (class of 1989): founder of Impact Investment Exchange (IIX)
*[[Becca Balint]] (class of 1990): current member of the United States House of Representatives from Vermont
* [[Jennifer Chrisler]] (class of 1992): executive director of the [[Family Equality Council]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Jennifer Chrisler to Lead Alumnae Relations at Smith College |url=https://www.smith.edu/news/jennifer-chrisler-alumnae-relations |access-date=
* [[Piper Kerman]] (class of 1992): ''[[Orange Is the New Black]]'' author, lived in Chapin House
* [[Deborah Archer]] (class of 1993): first Black person to be elected President of [[American Civil Liberties Union]] (ACLU)
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* [[Cass Bird]] (class of 1999): fashion photographer
* [[Erin Morgenstern]] (class of 2000): ''[[The Night Circus]]'' author
* [[Sara Haines]] (class of 2000): co-host of ''[[The View (U.S. TV series)|The View]]'', [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] correspondent
* [[Rubaiyat Hossain]] (class of 2002): filmmaker of feature films [[Under Construction (film)|''Under Construction'']] and [[Made in Bangladesh (2019 film)|''Made in Bangladesh'']]
* [[Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy]] (class of 2002): documentarian, winner of two [[Academy Awards]]
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==Notable staff==
{{Main|List of Smith College people}}
* [[Herbert Baxter Adams]] (1850–1901), educator, historian, and cofounder of the [[American Historical Association]] taught history at Smith from 1878 to 1881.<ref>“Professor Herbert Baxter Adams” by B. J. Ramage in The American Historical Magazine Vol. 6, No. 4 (OCTOBER
* [[Newton Arvin]], American literary critic and academic
* [[Leonard Baskin]], an artist who taught at Smith from 1953 to 1974
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* [[Emily Hale]], speech and drama teacher, and muse of [[T.S. Eliot]]
* [[Louise Holland]] (1893–1990), academic, philologist and archaeologist, taught here from 1957 to 1964
* [[Daphne Lamothe]], provost and professor of Africana studies<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |date=May 13, 2024 |title=Daphne Lamothe Promoted to Provost of Smith College in Massachusetts |url=https://jbhe.com/2024/05/daphne-lamothe-promoted-to-provost-of-smith-college/ |access-date=June 15, 2024 |website=The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Yusef Lateef|Yusef Abdul Lateef]], an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer, thought to be one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, taught at Smith during the early 2000s.
* [[Sylvia Plath]] (1932–1963), an American poet and erudite, was an English professor from 1957 to 1958.
* [[Kurt Vonnegut]], served as Writer-in-Residence during the 2000–2001 school year<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smith.edu/newsoffice/releases/00-019.html|title=Acclaimed Satirist and Best-Selling Novelist to Give Public "Performance" at Smith|publisher=Smith College|access-date=November 21, 2013
* [[Jane Zielonko]], translator of ''[[The Captive Mind]]'' (1953), taught English at Smith from 1946.<ref>''[https://archive.org/details/smithcata4647smit/page/n5/mode/2up Smith College Bulletin]''. 1946–1947. p. 96.</ref>
In 1960, three Smith professors, one who had been there for 38 years, were fired or "allowed to retire" for being [[Homosexual|gay]]. This was chronicled in a book (''The Scarlet Professor—[[Newton Arvin]]: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal'' (Doubleday, 2001), by Barry Werth), and the PBS Independent Lens film, ''The Great Pink Scare''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/greatpinkscare/film.html|title=The Great Pink Scare|publisher=Independent Television Service (ITVS)|access-date=
==See also==
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* Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz (1993). [https://archive.org/details/almamaterdesigne0000horo/page/n7/mode/2up ''Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s''] (2nd ed.—link is to the 1st ed.). Amherst, Mass.: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. {{ISBN|9780870238697}}. {{Oclc|28063894}}.
* Olsen, Deborah M. (Winter 2000). "Remaking the Image: Promotional Literature of Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Wellesley Colleges in the Mid-to-Late 1940s". ''History of Education Quarterly'' 40#4, pp. 418–59. {{
* Solomon, Barbara Miller (1985). [https://archive.org/details/incompanyofeduca0000solo/page/n4/mode/1up ''In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America'']. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.
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