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Smith College

March 08, 2023

Not to be confused with William Smith College.

Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith and opened in 1875. It is the largest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite women's colleges in the Northeastern United States. Smith is also a member of the Five College Consortium,[6] along with four other nearby institutions in the Pioneer Valley: Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst;[7] students of each college are allowed to attend classes at any other member institution. On campus are Smith's Museum of Art and Botanic Garden, the latter designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

Smith College
MottoἘν τῇ ἀρετῇ τὴν γνῶσιν (Greek)
Motto in English
In Virtue [One Gains] Knowledge
TypePrivate liberal arts women's college
Established1871 (opened 1875)
AccreditationNECHE
Academic affiliation
Seven Sisters
Endowment$2.56 billion (2021)[1]
PresidentKathleen McCartney
Academic staff
285[2]
Students2,903 (fall 2018)[3]
Undergraduates2,502 (fall 2018)[3]
Postgraduates401 (fall 2018)[3]
Location
Northampton, Massachusetts
,
U.S.

42°19′3″N 72°38′15″W / 42.31750°N 72.63750°W / 42.31750; -72.63750Coordinates: 42°19′3″N 72°38′15″W / 42.31750°N 72.63750°W / 42.31750; -72.63750
CampusSmall-town
Colors   Blue with gold trim[4]
NicknamePioneers
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division III – NEWMAC
Websitewww.smith.edu

Smith has 41 academic departments and programs and is structured around an open curriculum, lacking course requirements and scheduled final exams. It is known for its progressive, politically active student body, and rigorous academics.[8] Undergraduate admissions is exclusively restricted to women, although Smith announced a trans-inclusive admissions policy in 2015.[9][10] Smith offers several graduate degrees, all of which accept applicants regardless of gender, and co-administers programs leading to Ph.D.s alongside other Five College Consortium members. The college was the first historically women's college to offer an undergraduate engineering degree.[11] Admissions is considered highly selective. It was the first women's college to join the NCAA, and its sports teams are known as the Pioneers.

Smith alumnae include notable authors, journalists, activists, feminists, politicians, philanthropists, actresses, filmmakers, academics, businesswomen, CEOs, two 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.

History

Early history

 
A view of Smith's campus c. 1900

The college was chartered in 1871 by a bequest of Sophia Smith and opened its doors in 1875 with 14 students and 6 faculty.[12] When she inherited a fortune from her father at age 65, Smith decided to leave her inheritance to found a women's college was the best way for her to fulfill the moral obligation she expressed in her will:[13]

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.[14] The campus landscape now encompasses 147 acres (59 ha) and includes more than 1,200 varieties of trees and shrubs.

By 1915–16, the student enrollment was 1,724, and the faculty numbered 163. Today, with some 2,600 undergraduates on campus and 250 students studying elsewhere,[15] Smith is the largest privately endowed college for women in the country.[16]

 
LTJG Harriet Ida Pickens and 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.

United States Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School

The United States Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School at Smith College was training grounds for junior officers of the Women's Reserve of the U.S. Naval Reserve (WAVES) and was nicknamed "USS Northampton". On August 28, 1942, a total of 120 women reported to the school for training.[17]

21st century

On December 10, 2012, the Board of Trustees announced Kathleen McCartney had been selected as the 11th president of Smith College, effective July 1, 2013.[18]

In April 2015, the faculty adopted an open-access policy to make its scholarship publicly accessible online.[19]

Presidents

Smith has been led by 11 presidents and two acting presidents. (Elizabeth Cutter Morrow was the first acting president of Smith College and the first female head of the college, but she did not use the title of president.) For the 1975 centennial, the college inaugurated its first woman president, Jill Ker Conway, who came to Smith from Australia by way of Harvard and the University of Toronto. Since President Conway's term, all Smith presidents have been women, with the exception of John M. Connolly's one-year term as acting president in the interim after President Simmons left to lead Brown University.

Academics

 
Smith's campus as it appears today

Smith College has 285 professors in 41 academic departments and programs, for a faculty-student ratio of 1:9.[15] It was the first women's college in the United States to grant its own undergraduate degrees in engineering. The Picker Engineering Program offers a single ABET accredited Bachelor of Science in engineering science, combining the fundamentals of multiple engineering disciplines.

In 2008, Smith joined the SAT optional movement for undergraduate admission.[20][21]

Smith runs its own junior year abroad (JYA) programs in four European cities: Paris, Hamburg, Florence, and Geneva.[22] These programs are notable for requiring all studies to be conducted in the language of the host country (with both Paris and Geneva programs conducted in French). In some cases, students live in homestays with local families. Nearly half of Smith's juniors study overseas, either through Smith JYA programs or at more than 40 other locations around the world.

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 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.[23]

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.[24]

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.[25]

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.[26]

Its most popular undergraduate majors, based on 2021 graduates, were:[27]

  • Research & Experimental Psychology (49)
  • Biology/Biological Sciences (48)
  • Political Science & Government (45)
  • Engineering Science (36)
  • History (30)
  • English Language & Literature (25)
  • Mathematics (23)
  • Economics (23)
  • Computer Science (22)

Ada Comstock Scholars Program

 
Ada Comstock, class of 1897

The Ada Comstock Scholars Program is an undergraduate degree program that serves Smith students of 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.[28]

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 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 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.[29]

Graduate degrees and study options

 
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.[30]

Also offered as a non-degree studies program is the Diploma in American Studies.[31] This is a highly competitive one-year program open only to international students of advanced undergraduate or graduate standing. It is designed primarily, although not exclusively, for those who are teaching or who plan to teach some aspect of American culture and institutions.

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.

The college has a limited number of other programs leading to Ph.D.s and is part of a cooperative doctoral program co-administered by Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Admissions and rankings

Admissions

The 2022 annual ranking of U.S. News & World Report categorizes Smith as 'most selective'.[32]

For the Class of 2022 (enrolling fall 2018), Smith received 5,780 applications, accepted 1,789 (31.0%), and enrolled 613.[33] The middle 50% range of SAT scores was 670–750 for critical reading and 670–770 for math, while the middle 50% range for the ACT composite score was 31–34 for enrolled first-year students. The average SAT for Smith College is 1430 even though Smith is also a test-optional college.[33]

Rankings

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".[38] In 2019, Forbes rated Smith 81st overall in its America's Top Colleges ranking of 650 military academies, national universities, and liberal arts colleges.[39] Kiplinger's Personal Finance places Smith 16th in its 2019 ranking of 149 best value liberal arts colleges in the United States.[40] For 2020, Washington Monthly ranked Smith 23rd among 218 liberal arts colleges in the U.S. based on its contribution to the public good, as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service.[41] Smith College is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.[42]

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 36 separate houses, ranging in architectural style from 18th-century to contemporary. It is rumored the architecture of Chapin House was the inspiration for the Tara Plantation House in Gone with the Wind. (Author Margaret Mitchell went to Smith for one year and lived in Chapin.)[43] A novelty of Smith's homelike atmosphere is the continuing popularity of Sophia Smith's recipe[44] for molasses cookies. These are often served at the traditional Friday afternoon tea held in each house, where students, faculty and staff members, and alumnae socialize.[2]

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] 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]

 
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 [45][46] and the state-of-the-art Olin Fitness Center.[47]

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.[48]

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."[49]

Smith offers "panel discussions and seminars for lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students on subjects such as coming out as transgender at work."[50] In 2003, Smith students voted to remove pronouns from the language of the Student Government Association constitution, in order to make that document inclusive of transgender students who don't identify with the pronouns "she" and "her."[51]

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.[52] 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.[53] In 2014, Smith formed an Admissions Policy Study Group, co-chaired by Daphne Lamothe and Audrey Smith, who at the time were an associate professor of Afro-American studies and vice president for enrollment, respectively.[54] The group recommended that to be considered for admission to Smith, applicants live and/or identify as a woman, check the "female" box when applying and that the President establish a working group to support all trans and non-binary students at Smith.[55] These recommendations went to the faculty[55] and the Board of Trustees[56] and in 2015, Smith announced a new policy that only required female identification on the common application.[57] Under the policy, transgender men and non-binary or genderqueer applicants are not eligible for admission.[58] This new policy also affirms that any student who, once admitted, transitions to another identity other than "female" and, who completes the college's graduation requirements, will be awarded a Smith degree.[59] The Resource Center for Sexuality and Gender; The Office for Equity and Inclusion and its Trans/Non-binary Working Group; Transcending Gender, a student group focused on support and education; and the Transgender Support Group run by Counseling Services work to support trans and non-binary students at Smith across the gender identity spectrum.

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.[60] While the incident received national attention and news coverage, Smith conducted an independent investigation and investigators found that there was no bias in the incident.[61] In response to the incident, Smith hosted an Inclusion and Diversity Conference on April 10, 2019, featuring workshops and presenters run by various members of the Smith community.[62] However, during that time another controversy arose: the hiring of Mount Holyoke College and Smith's joint police chief, Daniel Hect. Students from both campuses brought to their administrators' attention the fact that Hect had "liked" right-wing tweets on Twitter, such as Donald Trump tweeting "Build that Wall!" and a tweet from the National Rifle Association, before deleting his account once the conflict with students began. At the conference, students protested a presentation from the campus police, including Hect, about policing in a diverse community. Protests continued the next day when hundreds of students participated in a sit-in organized by the group Students for Social Justice and Institutional Change outside of John M. Greene Hall. The coalition presented a broad list of demands to the administration, proposing reform to many sectors of campus life, including curriculum, health and counseling services, accessibility, policing, admissions policies, and affinity housing.[63] In response to the demands, Smith launched a working group charged with identifying key themes in response to the day of inclusion and ensuing protests[64] and revamped the Office of Equity and Inclusion, adding programmatic changes, new or modified positions, training and development opportunities and new events to promote inclusion and equity.[65]

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.[66] 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".[66][67] On February 22, Smith College published a letter from President Kathleen McCartney alleging that an unnamed former employee had accused the college of "creating a racially hostile environment for white people, a baseless claim that the college flatly denies," and that "it was the employee herself who demanded payment of an exceptionally large sum in exchange for dropping a threatened legal claim and agreeing to standard confidentiality provisions." McCartney affirmed that the college's "commitment to, and strategies for, advancing equity and inclusion are grounded in evidence."[68]

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.[69]

Houses

See also: Smith College Housing

Smith College has many different houses serving as dormitories. Each house is self-governing. While many students remain in the same house for the entirety of their four years at Smith, they are not obligated to do so and may move to different houses on campus as space allows. While houses previously collected dues, in the 2019–2020 school year they were eradicated to avoid placing financial pressure on low-income students or students who were otherwise unable to pay without sacrificing funding for the House.

Houses are found in four main regions of campus: Upper and Lower Elm Street, Green Street, Center Campus, and the Quadrangle. Each part can, in turn, be divided into smaller areas to more precisely provide the location of the house in question. In 2019, the college shifted from officially recognizing the four main areas of campus to instead categorizing houses in four neighborhoods: Ivy, Paradise, Mountain, and Garden. This change was largely internal and categorizes houses by size rather than location.

Green Street houses
  • 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.[70]
  • 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.[71][72]
  • Tyler House – Named after William Seymour Tyler, one of the original trustees of the college.[73] Former First Lady Barbara Bush lived here before she left to marry George Bush.[74]
  • 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
  • 54 Green Street
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.[75]
  • 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.[76]
  • Sessions Complex – the oldest house on the Smith campus. It has a secret passageway.[77]
  • Tenney House
  • Ziskind House
Upper Elm Street houses
 
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 Classical Revival style.[78] 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.[79] She married Harvard graduate and future Smith Trustee Thomas Lamont and had four children. Throughout her life, she would continue to give generously to her alma mater. Lamont House is just across Elm Street, tucked behind Northrop and Gillett Houses. Lamont houses 83 students.[80]
  • Northrop House
  • Parsons Complex
    • Parsons Annex – one of two new Affinity houses at Smith College, houses that cater to minority identities on campus.[81]
  • Talbot House – Built in 1909 as part of the Capen School, it was willed to the college in 1921. Its mascot is the moose.[82] US First Lady Nancy Reagan '43 lived here during her time at Smith.[citation needed] It is also named for Bessie Talbot Capen.
Lower Elm Street houses
  • Albright House
  • Baldwin House – U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin ('84) was a Baldwin House resident during her time at Smith College.
  • 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
  • 150 Elm Street
East Quadrangle houses
  • 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, Mary Augusta Jordan.[83]
  • King House – Named for Franklin King, who served as the superintendent of building and grounds at Smith for 50 years [84]
  • Scales House -King's "sister house," was named after Laura Woolsey Lord Scales, who graduated from Smith in 1901 and was the school's first dean of students [85]
West Quadrangle houses
  • Comstock House – Named after Ada Comstock class of 1897, former dean of the college and president of Radcliffe College
  • Gardiner House
  • Morrow House – Named after Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, class of 1896 and former acting president of the college
  • Wilder House
  • Wilson House – Named after Martha Wilson, class of 1895
  • Paradise Apartments – each complex is named after a notable Smith Alum

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.[86] One such tale holds Sessions House is inhabited by the ghost of Lucy Hunt, who died of a broken heart after being separated from her lover, General Burgoyne. Reports of a ghost in Sessions House predate its history as a campus house. Built in 1751 by the Hunt family, the house has a secret staircase where, according to legend, the Hunt's eldest daughter Lucy would rendezvous with her lover, General Burgoyne. The two were ultimately driven apart, and in the 1880s it was believed the ghost of a heartbroken Burgoyne haunted the staircase. Since Sessions House became part of college housing in the 20th century, the specter has taken on a decidedly feminine identity, and some former residents of Sessions claim to have seen Lucy's ghost in the stairwell.[87]

Clubs, sports, and organizations

In addition to its 11 varsity sports,[88] there are currently more than 120 clubs and organizations[89] that cater to Smith students’ variety of interests. There are options that can be found based on academic, political, cultural, and athletic interests. If a student doesn't find an organization that fits their specific interest or need, they can create their own.

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).[90][91]

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 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 intercollegiate women's tennis championships in singles (Louise Raymond, 1938 and 1939) and doubles (1933, 1935, 1938 and 1948).[92]

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.

Smith has a rotating system of class colors dating back to the 1880s when intramural athletics and other campus competitions were usually held by class. Today, class colors are yellow, red, blue, and green, with incoming first-year classes assigned the color of the previous year's graduating class; their color then "follows" them through to graduation. Alumnae classes, particularly at reunions, continue to identify with and use their class color thereafter.

Cultural organizations

There are 11 chartered cultural organizations that fall under the UNITY title: the Asian Students’ Association (ASA), Black Students’ Alliance (BSA), Chinese Interregional Student Cultural Org (CISCO), South Asian Student Association of Smith (EKTA), Indigenous Smith Students and Allies (ISSA), International Students Organization (ISO), Korean Students Association (KSA), the Latin American Students Organization (LASO), Multiethnic Interracial Smith College (MISC), Smithies of Caribbean Ancestry (SOCA), and the Vietnamese Students Association (VSA). Smith College Website Multicultural Affairs The Black Students’ Alliance is the oldest of all Unity organizations. In the Fall of 2012, as an effort to document the history of students of color on the Smith campus, the Weaving Voices Archives Project was created.

Academic year events

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 picking together.

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.

Rally Day In February 1876, the college began an annual observance of George Washington's birthday. In 1894, a rally became part of the day's events, and the focus of the celebration became primarily patriotic rather than exclusively social—though always with a women's college twist. Students that year staged a mock debate on the subject, "Does Higher Education Unfit a Man for Domestic Life?" In 1906 the celebration was first referred to as Rally Day (although the name was not used officially by the college until 1992). In 1944, seniors made Rally Day the first public wearing of their graduation caps and gowns; since then, mortarboards have been replaced by wacky, often homemade hats. Today, the Rally Day Convocation is centered on a historical theme and features a distinguished keynote speaker and the awarding of Smith College Medals to accomplished alumnae.

Reunions and commencement events

The Alumnae Association of Smith College hosts official class reunions every five years. All alumnae from all classes are welcome to return in any year; "off-year" alumnae attend campus-wide events as the "Class of 1776."

Traditional reunion and Commencement events are linked, and celebrate the close ties between Smith's alumnae and its graduating seniors and their families. At the conclusion of final exams, most underclassmen leave the campus, while seniors remain in their houses for a week to celebrate and prepare for Commencement. Alumnae arrive for reunions later in the week, and many alumnae arrange for official accommodations in the campus houses, right alongside senior residents.

 
Ivy Day

Ivy Day, the day before Commencement, is the high point of reunion and a significant event for seniors as well. Junior ushers lead a parade through campus, carrying vines of ivy to be planted by the departing seniors as a symbol of their lifelong connection to the college. Alumnae (and, often, their children), dressed in white and wearing sashes in their class color, line up in reverse order by class along both sides of the route. Seniors line up nearest the end of the parade route, wearing traditional white outfits and each carrying a single red rose. All cheer each alumnae class as it marches past, then fall in to join the end of the parade. Many alumnae classes carry signs with humorous poems or slogans, or hold balloons or wear hats in their class color. Ivy Day festivities conclude in the Quad, where the seniors plant their ivy and speakers address alumnae on the progress of fundraising and the state of the college.

Illumination Night, beginning at dusk on the Saturday evening before Commencement, is a celebration of the campus and a send-off of sorts for graduating seniors. Throughout the central campus, electric street lights are replaced for one night by multicolored Japanese-style paper lanterns, lit with real candles. These hang on both sides of every walking path and cast a soft glow over the buildings and lawns. Student a cappella singing groups and improv comedy troupes roam the campus, stopping occasionally to entertain the crowds. A jazz band, hired by the college, turns the science building's courtyard into a dance floor. Seniors, alumnae, faculty, and their families spend the evening on walking tours of the illuminated campus and Botanic Gardens. The major official event of the night is the Senior Step Sing: seniors gather on the steps of Neilson Library, where they are serenaded by members of the Sophomore Push committee and then are physically pushed off the stairs and "into the real world."

Until the early 1990s, all alumnae reunions were held during Commencement weekend. However, as the number of returning alumnae grew beyond the capacity of the campus, reunions were split into Reunion I/Commencement Weekend and Reunion II, held the following weekend. "Significant" reunions (50-, 25- and 10- year, but also 2-year) and the earliest reunion classes (65-year and prior) are assigned to Reunion I; other reunions (5-, 15-, 20-, 30-year, and so on) are assigned to Reunion II.

There have been several controversies surrounding commencement over the years. See Smith College commencement controversies to learn more.

Environmental sustainability

 
Paradise Pond with portion of athletic fields visible (center left)

Smith has taken numerous steps toward environmental sustainability, including a 30% reduction in energy use. Also, through a contract with Zipcar, the college has reduced the need for individually owned-cars on campus. Complementing this effort, the college has also promoted sustainability through academics and through the arts.[93]

In keeping with its sustainability efforts, all Smith dining locations have discontinued the use of "to-go" supplies which included paper cups and plates, as well as plastic utensils. They now encourage 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.[94]

Notable alumnae

Main article: List of Smith College people

Among the more notable of Smith College's alumnae in chronological order are:

Notable staff

Main article: List of Smith College people

In 1960, three Smith professors, one who had been there for 38 years, were fired or "allowed to retire" for being 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.[102] It was also depicted in an opera based on Werth's book in 2017 at Amherst College.[103] In 2002, Smith, the nation's largest liberal arts college for women, acknowledged a wrong from four decades earlier by creating a lecture series and a small scholarship—the $100,000 Dorius/Spofford Fund for the Study of Civil Liberties and Freedom of Expression, and the Newton Arvin Prize in American Studies, a $500 annual stipend. But despite faculty appeals, there was no apology.[104]

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smith, college, confused, with, william, private, liberal, arts, women, college, northampton, massachusetts, chartered, 1871, sophia, smith, opened, 1875, largest, member, historic, seven, sisters, colleges, group, elite, women, colleges, northeastern, united,. Not to be confused with William Smith College Smith College is a private liberal arts women s college in Northampton Massachusetts It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith and opened in 1875 It is the largest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges a group of elite women s colleges in the Northeastern United States Smith is also a member of the Five College Consortium 6 along with four other nearby institutions in the Pioneer Valley Mount Holyoke College Amherst College Hampshire College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst 7 students of each college are allowed to attend classes at any other member institution On campus are Smith s Museum of Art and Botanic Garden the latter designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Smith CollegeMottoἘn tῇ ἀretῇ tὴn gnῶsin Greek Motto in EnglishIn Virtue One Gains KnowledgeTypePrivate liberal arts women s collegeEstablished1871 opened 1875 AccreditationNECHEAcademic affiliationSeven SistersEndowment 2 56 billion 2021 1 PresidentKathleen McCartneyAcademic staff285 2 Students2 903 fall 2018 3 Undergraduates2 502 fall 2018 3 Postgraduates401 fall 2018 3 LocationNorthampton Massachusetts U S 42 19 3 N 72 38 15 W 42 31750 N 72 63750 W 42 31750 72 63750 Coordinates 42 19 3 N 72 38 15 W 42 31750 N 72 63750 W 42 31750 72 63750CampusSmall townColors Blue with gold trim 4 NicknamePioneersSporting affiliationsNCAA Division III NEWMACWebsitewww wbr smith wbr eduSmith has 41 academic departments and programs and is structured around an open curriculum lacking course requirements and scheduled final exams It is known for its progressive politically active student body and rigorous academics 8 Undergraduate admissions is exclusively restricted to women although Smith announced a trans inclusive admissions policy in 2015 9 10 Smith offers several graduate degrees all of which accept applicants regardless of gender and co administers programs leading to Ph D s alongside other Five College Consortium members The college was the first historically women s college to offer an undergraduate engineering degree 11 Admissions is considered highly selective It was the first women s college to join the NCAA and its sports teams are known as the Pioneers Smith alumnae include notable authors journalists activists feminists politicians philanthropists actresses filmmakers academics businesswomen CEOs two 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 Contents 1 History 1 1 Early history 1 2 United States Naval Reserve Midshipmen s School 1 3 21st century 1 4 Presidents 2 Academics 2 1 Ada Comstock Scholars Program 2 2 Graduate degrees and study options 3 Admissions and rankings 3 1 Admissions 3 2 Rankings 4 Traditions 4 1 Residential culture and student life 4 1 1 Houses 4 1 1 1 Green Street houses 4 1 1 2 Center Campus houses 4 1 1 3 Upper Elm Street houses 4 1 1 4 Lower Elm Street houses 4 1 1 5 East Quadrangle houses 4 1 1 6 West Quadrangle houses 4 1 2 Campus folklore 4 1 3 Clubs sports and organizations 4 1 3 1 Athletics 4 1 3 2 Cultural organizations 4 2 Academic year events 4 3 Reunions and commencement events 5 Environmental sustainability 6 Notable alumnae 7 Notable staff 8 See also 9 References 10 Bibliography 11 External linksHistory EditEarly history Edit A view of Smith s campus c 1900 The college was chartered in 1871 by a bequest of Sophia Smith and opened its doors in 1875 with 14 students and 6 faculty 12 When she inherited a fortune from her father at age 65 Smith decided to leave her inheritance to found a women s college was the best way for her to fulfill the moral obligation she expressed in her will 13 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 14 The campus landscape now encompasses 147 acres 59 ha and includes more than 1 200 varieties of trees and shrubs By 1915 16 the student enrollment was 1 724 and the faculty numbered 163 Today with some 2 600 undergraduates on campus and 250 students studying elsewhere 15 Smith is the largest privately endowed college for women in the country 16 LTJG Harriet Ida Pickens and 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 United States Naval Reserve Midshipmen s School Edit The United States Naval Reserve Midshipmen s School at Smith College was training grounds for junior officers of the Women s Reserve of the U S Naval Reserve WAVES and was nicknamed USS Northampton On August 28 1942 a total of 120 women reported to the school for training 17 21st century Edit On December 10 2012 the Board of Trustees announced Kathleen McCartney had been selected as the 11th president of Smith College effective July 1 2013 18 In April 2015 the faculty adopted an open access policy to make its scholarship publicly accessible online 19 Presidents Edit Smith has been led by 11 presidents and two acting presidents Elizabeth Cutter Morrow was the first acting president of Smith College and the first female head of the college but she did not use the title of president For the 1975 centennial the college inaugurated its first woman president Jill Ker Conway who came to Smith from Australia by way of Harvard and the University of Toronto Since President Conway s term all Smith presidents have been women with the exception of John M Connolly s one year term as acting president in the interim after President Simmons left to lead Brown University Laurenus Clark Seelye 1875 1910 Marion LeRoy Burton 1910 1917 William Allan Neilson 1917 1939 Elizabeth Cutter Morrow 1939 1940 acting president Herbert Davis 1940 1949 Benjamin Fletcher Wright 1949 1959 Thomas Corwin Mendenhall 1959 1975 Jill Ker Conway 1975 1985 Mary Maples Dunn 1985 1995 Ruth Simmons 1995 2001 John M Connolly 2001 2002 acting president Carol T Christ 2002 2013 Kathleen McCartney 2013 presentAcademics Edit Smith s campus as it appears today Smith College has 285 professors in 41 academic departments and programs for a faculty student ratio of 1 9 15 It was the first women s college in the United States to grant its own undergraduate degrees in engineering The Picker Engineering Program offers a single ABET accredited Bachelor of Science in engineering science combining the fundamentals of multiple engineering disciplines In 2008 Smith joined the SAT optional movement for undergraduate admission 20 21 Smith runs its own junior year abroad JYA programs in four European cities Paris Hamburg Florence and Geneva 22 These programs are notable for requiring all studies to be conducted in the language of the host country with both Paris and Geneva programs conducted in French In some cases students live in homestays with local families Nearly half of Smith s juniors study overseas either through Smith JYA programs or at more than 40 other locations around the world 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 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 23 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 24 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 25 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 26 Its most popular undergraduate majors based on 2021 graduates were 27 Research amp Experimental Psychology 49 Biology Biological Sciences 48 Political Science amp Government 45 Engineering Science 36 History 30 English Language amp Literature 25 Mathematics 23 Economics 23 Computer Science 22 Ada Comstock Scholars Program Edit Ada Comstock class of 1897 The Ada Comstock Scholars Program is an undergraduate degree program that serves Smith students of 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 28 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 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 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 29 Graduate degrees and study options Edit 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 30 Also offered as a non degree studies program is the Diploma in American Studies 31 This is a highly competitive one year program open only to international students of advanced undergraduate or graduate standing It is designed primarily although not exclusively for those who are teaching or who plan to teach some aspect of American culture and institutions 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 The college has a limited number of other programs leading to Ph D s and is part of a cooperative doctoral program co administered by Amherst College Hampshire College Mount Holyoke College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst Admissions and rankings EditAdmissions Edit The 2022 annual ranking of U S News amp World Report categorizes Smith as most selective 32 For the Class of 2022 enrolling fall 2018 Smith received 5 780 applications accepted 1 789 31 0 and enrolled 613 33 The middle 50 range of SAT scores was 670 750 for critical reading and 670 770 for math while the middle 50 range for the ACT composite score was 31 34 for enrolled first year students The average SAT for Smith College is 1430 even though Smith is also a test optional college 33 Rankings Edit Academic rankingsLiberal arts collegesU S News amp World Report 34 15Washington Monthly 35 23NationalForbes 36 81THE WSJ 37 41U S News amp 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 38 In 2019 Forbes rated Smith 81st overall in its America s Top Colleges ranking of 650 military academies national universities and liberal arts colleges 39 Kiplinger s Personal Finance places Smith 16th in its 2019 ranking of 149 best value liberal arts colleges in the United States 40 For 2020 Washington Monthly ranked Smith 23rd among 218 liberal arts colleges in the U S based on its contribution to the public good as measured by social mobility research and promoting public service 41 Smith College is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education 42 Traditions EditResidential culture and student life Edit 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 36 separate houses ranging in architectural style from 18th century to contemporary It is rumored the architecture of Chapin House was the inspiration for the Tara Plantation House in Gone with the Wind Author Margaret Mitchell went to Smith for one year and lived in Chapin 43 A novelty of Smith s homelike atmosphere is the continuing popularity of Sophia Smith s recipe 44 for molasses cookies These are often served at the traditional Friday afternoon tea held in each house where students faculty and staff members and alumnae socialize 2 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 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 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 45 46 and the state of the art Olin Fitness Center 47 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 48 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 49 Smith offers panel discussions and seminars for lesbian bisexual and transgender students on subjects such as coming out as transgender at work 50 In 2003 Smith students voted to remove pronouns from the language of the Student Government Association constitution in order to make that document inclusive of transgender students who don t identify with the pronouns she and her 51 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 amp A Queers and Allies to advocate for more trans inclusive policies 52 Q amp A subsequently protested the policy on Facebook and other social media websites as well as staging protests on campus that garnered significant media attention 53 In 2014 Smith formed an Admissions Policy Study Group co chaired by Daphne Lamothe and Audrey Smith who at the time were an associate professor of Afro American studies and vice president for enrollment respectively 54 The group recommended that to be considered for admission to Smith applicants live and or identify as a woman check the female box when applying and that the President establish a working group to support all trans and non binary students at Smith 55 These recommendations went to the faculty 55 and the Board of Trustees 56 and in 2015 Smith announced a new policy that only required female identification on the common application 57 Under the policy transgender men and non binary or genderqueer applicants are not eligible for admission 58 This new policy also affirms that any student who once admitted transitions to another identity other than female and who completes the college s graduation requirements will be awarded a Smith degree 59 The Resource Center for Sexuality and Gender The Office for Equity and Inclusion and its Trans Non binary Working Group Transcending Gender a student group focused on support and education and the Transgender Support Group run by Counseling Services work to support trans and non binary students at Smith across the gender identity spectrum 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 amp Caribbean Students Association students protested and walked out of the annual Smith convocation 60 While the incident received national attention and news coverage Smith conducted an independent investigation and investigators found that there was no bias in the incident 61 In response to the incident Smith hosted an Inclusion and Diversity Conference on April 10 2019 featuring workshops and presenters run by various members of the Smith community 62 However during that time another controversy arose the hiring of Mount Holyoke College and Smith s joint police chief Daniel Hect Students from both campuses brought to their administrators attention the fact that Hect had liked right wing tweets on Twitter such as Donald Trump tweeting Build that Wall and a tweet from the National Rifle Association before deleting his account once the conflict with students began At the conference students protested a presentation from the campus police including Hect about policing in a diverse community Protests continued the next day when hundreds of students participated in a sit in organized by the group Students for Social Justice and Institutional Change outside of John M Greene Hall The coalition presented a broad list of demands to the administration proposing reform to many sectors of campus life including curriculum health and counseling services accessibility policing admissions policies and affinity housing 63 In response to the demands Smith launched a working group charged with identifying key themes in response to the day of inclusion and ensuing protests 64 and revamped the Office of Equity and Inclusion adding programmatic changes new or modified positions training and development opportunities and new events to promote inclusion and equity 65 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 66 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 66 67 On February 22 Smith College published a letter from President Kathleen McCartney alleging that an unnamed former employee had accused the college of creating a racially hostile environment for white people a baseless claim that the college flatly denies and that it was the employee herself who demanded payment of an exceptionally large sum in exchange for dropping a threatened legal claim and agreeing to standard confidentiality provisions McCartney affirmed that the college s commitment to and strategies for advancing equity and inclusion are grounded in evidence 68 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 69 Houses Edit See also Smith College Housing Smith College has many different houses serving as dormitories Each house is self governing While many students remain in the same house for the entirety of their four years at Smith they are not obligated to do so and may move to different houses on campus as space allows While houses previously collected dues in the 2019 2020 school year they were eradicated to avoid placing financial pressure on low income students or students who were otherwise unable to pay without sacrificing funding for the House Houses are found in four main regions of campus Upper and Lower Elm Street Green Street Center Campus and the Quadrangle Each part can in turn be divided into smaller areas to more precisely provide the location of the house in question In 2019 the college shifted from officially recognizing the four main areas of campus to instead categorizing houses in four neighborhoods Ivy Paradise Mountain and Garden This change was largely internal and categorizes houses by size rather than location Green Street houses Edit 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 70 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 71 72 Tyler House Named after William Seymour Tyler one of the original trustees of the college 73 Former First Lady Barbara Bush lived here before she left to marry George Bush 74 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 54 Green StreetCenter Campus houses Edit 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 75 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 76 Sessions Complex the oldest house on the Smith campus It has a secret passageway 77 Tenney House Ziskind HouseUpper Elm Street houses Edit 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 Classical Revival style 78 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 79 She married Harvard graduate and future Smith Trustee Thomas Lamont and had four children Throughout her life she would continue to give generously to her alma mater Lamont House is just across Elm Street tucked behind Northrop and Gillett Houses Lamont houses 83 students 80 Northrop House Parsons Complex Parsons Annex one of two new Affinity houses at Smith College houses that cater to minority identities on campus 81 Talbot House Built in 1909 as part of the Capen School it was willed to the college in 1921 Its mascot is the moose 82 US First Lady Nancy Reagan 43 lived here during her time at Smith citation needed It is also named for Bessie Talbot Capen Lower Elm Street houses Edit Albright House Baldwin House U S Senator Tammy Baldwin 84 was a Baldwin House resident during her time at Smith College 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 amp 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 150 Elm StreetEast Quadrangle houses Edit 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 Mary Augusta Jordan 83 King House Named for Franklin King who served as the superintendent of building and grounds at Smith for 50 years 84 Scales House King s sister house was named after Laura Woolsey Lord Scales who graduated from Smith in 1901 and was the school s first dean of students 85 West Quadrangle houses Edit Comstock House Named after Ada Comstock class of 1897 former dean of the college and president of Radcliffe College Gardiner House Morrow House Named after Elizabeth Cutter Morrow class of 1896 and former acting president of the college Wilder House Wilson House Named after Martha Wilson class of 1895 Paradise Apartments each complex is named after a notable Smith AlumCampus folklore Edit 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 86 One such tale holds Sessions House is inhabited by the ghost of Lucy Hunt who died of a broken heart after being separated from her lover General Burgoyne Reports of a ghost in Sessions House predate its history as a campus house Built in 1751 by the Hunt family the house has a secret staircase where according to legend the Hunt s eldest daughter Lucy would rendezvous with her lover General Burgoyne The two were ultimately driven apart and in the 1880s it was believed the ghost of a heartbroken Burgoyne haunted the staircase Since Sessions House became part of college housing in the 20th century the specter has taken on a decidedly feminine identity and some former residents of Sessions claim to have seen Lucy s ghost in the stairwell 87 Clubs sports and organizations Edit In addition to its 11 varsity sports 88 there are currently more than 120 clubs and organizations 89 that cater to Smith students variety of interests There are options that can be found based on academic political cultural and athletic interests If a student doesn t find an organization that fits their specific interest or need they can create their own Athletics Edit 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 90 91 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 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 intercollegiate women s tennis championships in singles Louise Raymond 1938 and 1939 and doubles 1933 1935 1938 and 1948 92 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 Smith has a rotating system of class colors dating back to the 1880s when intramural athletics and other campus competitions were usually held by class Today class colors are yellow red blue and green with incoming first year classes assigned the color of the previous year s graduating class their color then follows them through to graduation Alumnae classes particularly at reunions continue to identify with and use their class color thereafter Cultural organizations Edit There are 11 chartered cultural organizations that fall under the UNITY title the Asian Students Association ASA Black Students Alliance BSA Chinese Interregional Student Cultural Org CISCO South Asian Student Association of Smith EKTA Indigenous Smith Students and Allies ISSA International Students Organization ISO Korean Students Association KSA the Latin American Students Organization LASO Multiethnic Interracial Smith College MISC Smithies of Caribbean Ancestry SOCA and the Vietnamese Students Association VSA Smith College Website Multicultural Affairs The Black Students Alliance is the oldest of all Unity organizations In the Fall of 2012 as an effort to document the history of students of color on the Smith campus the Weaving Voices Archives Project was created Academic year events Edit 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 picking together 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 Rally Day In February 1876 the college began an annual observance of George Washington s birthday In 1894 a rally became part of the day s events and the focus of the celebration became primarily patriotic rather than exclusively social though always with a women s college twist Students that year staged a mock debate on the subject Does Higher Education Unfit a Man for Domestic Life In 1906 the celebration was first referred to as Rally Day although the name was not used officially by the college until 1992 In 1944 seniors made Rally Day the first public wearing of their graduation caps and gowns since then mortarboards have been replaced by wacky often homemade hats Today the Rally Day Convocation is centered on a historical theme and features a distinguished keynote speaker and the awarding of Smith College Medals to accomplished alumnae Reunions and commencement events Edit The Alumnae Association of Smith College hosts official class reunions every five years All alumnae from all classes are welcome to return in any year off year alumnae attend campus wide events as the Class of 1776 Traditional reunion and Commencement events are linked and celebrate the close ties between Smith s alumnae and its graduating seniors and their families At the conclusion of final exams most underclassmen leave the campus while seniors remain in their houses for a week to celebrate and prepare for Commencement Alumnae arrive for reunions later in the week and many alumnae arrange for official accommodations in the campus houses right alongside senior residents Ivy Day Ivy Day the day before Commencement is the high point of reunion and a significant event for seniors as well Junior ushers lead a parade through campus carrying vines of ivy to be planted by the departing seniors as a symbol of their lifelong connection to the college Alumnae and often their children dressed in white and wearing sashes in their class color line up in reverse order by class along both sides of the route Seniors line up nearest the end of the parade route wearing traditional white outfits and each carrying a single red rose All cheer each alumnae class as it marches past then fall in to join the end of the parade Many alumnae classes carry signs with humorous poems or slogans or hold balloons or wear hats in their class color Ivy Day festivities conclude in the Quad where the seniors plant their ivy and speakers address alumnae on the progress of fundraising and the state of the college Illumination Night beginning at dusk on the Saturday evening before Commencement is a celebration of the campus and a send off of sorts for graduating seniors Throughout the central campus electric street lights are replaced for one night by multicolored Japanese style paper lanterns lit with real candles These hang on both sides of every walking path and cast a soft glow over the buildings and lawns Student a cappella singing groups and improv comedy troupes roam the campus stopping occasionally to entertain the crowds A jazz band hired by the college turns the science building s courtyard into a dance floor Seniors alumnae faculty and their families spend the evening on walking tours of the illuminated campus and Botanic Gardens The major official event of the night is the Senior Step Sing seniors gather on the steps of Neilson Library where they are serenaded by members of the Sophomore Push committee and then are physically pushed off the stairs and into the real world Until the early 1990s all alumnae reunions were held during Commencement weekend However as the number of returning alumnae grew beyond the capacity of the campus reunions were split into Reunion I Commencement Weekend and Reunion II held the following weekend Significant reunions 50 25 and 10 year but also 2 year and the earliest reunion classes 65 year and prior are assigned to Reunion I other reunions 5 15 20 30 year and so on are assigned to Reunion II There have been several controversies surrounding commencement over the years See Smith College commencement controversies to learn more Environmental sustainability Edit Paradise Pond with portion of athletic fields visible center left Smith has taken numerous steps toward environmental sustainability including a 30 reduction in energy use Also through a contract with Zipcar the college has reduced the need for individually owned cars on campus Complementing this effort the college has also promoted sustainability through academics and through the arts 93 In keeping with its sustainability efforts all Smith dining locations have discontinued the use of to go supplies which included paper cups and plates as well as plastic utensils They now encourage 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 94 Notable alumnae EditMain article List of Smith College people Pulitzer Prize winning writer Margaret Mitchell Pulitzer Prize winning writer Sylvia Plath Author Piper Kerman Chef and television personality Julia Child 40th First Lady of the United States Nancy Reagan 41st First Lady of the United States Barbara Bush Feminist activist Betty Friedan Feminist activist Gloria Steinem Feminist and legal scholar Catharine A MacKinnon Civil rights activist Yolanda King U S Senator for Wisconsin and first openly LGBTQ person elected to Congress Tammy Baldwin Former U S Congress Member Jane Harman Former U S Congress Member Niki Tsongas U S Congress Member Becca Balint Academy Awards winning documentarian Sharmeen Obaid ChinoyAmong the more notable of Smith College s alumnae in chronological order are Otelia Cromwell class of 1900 first African American graduate of Smith College and the first African American woman to receive a doctorate from Yale Blanche Hinman Dow class of 1913 former president of the American Association of University Women 95 Clara Savage Littledale Class of 1913 writer and war reporter for Good Housekeeping and Parents editor for over thirty years 96 Eunice Carter class of 1921 first female African American assistant district attorney for the state of New York active in the prosecution of mob boss Charles Lucky Luciano Margaret Mitchell class of 1922 author of Gone with the Wind did not graduate from Smith Mary Watson Weaver class of 1925 composer and poet Julia Child class of 1934 chef author and television personality 70 Madeleine L Engle class of 1941 author best known for A Wrinkle in Time Betty Friedan class of 1942 feminist and author of The Feminine Mystique Nancy Reagan class of 1943 First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989 Penny Chenery class of 1943 sportswoman racehorse breeder and owner horse racing advocate Jean Harris class of 1945 headmistress of the Madeira School who murdered her ex lover Herman Tarnower in a jealous rage Rhoda Dorsey class of 1946 historian and first woman president of Goucher College Barbara Bush class of 1947 former First Lady of the United States did not graduate from Smith Mary Otis Stevens class of 1949 American architect Natalie Babbitt class of 1954 notable illustrator and author of Tuck Everlasting Sylvia Plath class of 1955 poet novelist and short story author Gloria Steinem class of 1956 founder of Ms magazine and noted feminist activist and journalist Lynden B Miller class of 1960 public garden designer park advocate and author Jane Yolen class of 1960 children s book author Ng endo Florence Mwangi class of 1961 Kenya s first woman physician Anne Mollegen Smith nee Anne Rush Mollegen class of 1961 first woman editor in chief of Redbook 97 Jane Harman class of 1966 U S Representative for California s 36th Congressional District Molly Ivins class of 1966 journalist political commentator and humorist Shelly Lazarus class of 1968 former CEO and Chairman of Ogilvy amp Mather Niki Tsongas class of 1968 U S Representative for Massachusetts 3rd Congressional District Catharine MacKinnon class of 1968 notable proponent of radical feminism scholar lawyer teacher and activist Laura D Andrea Tyson class of 1969 economist Director of the National Economic Council Yolanda King class of 1976 activist Christine McCarthy class of 1977 Chief Financial Officer of The Walt Disney Company Ann M Martin class of 1978 author of The Babysitter s Club Phebe Novakovic class of 1979 Chairman and CEO of General Dynamics Ruth Ozeki class of 1980 author of A Tale for the Time Being Margaret Edson class of 1983 winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama Tammy Baldwin class of 1984 United States Senator first openly LGBT person to be elected to congress Tori Murden class of 1985 the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean and to ski to the geographic South Pole Thelma Golden class of 1987 Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem 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 98 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 Kim Janey class of 1994 first woman and first Black person to serve as mayor of the City of Boston Hanya Yanagihara class of 1995 author and editor Emily W Murphy class of 1995 Administrator of the General Services Administration under Donald Trump Dorie Clark class of 1997 author and executive education professor Luma Mufleh class of 1997 founder and director of Fugees Family Inc 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 ABC News correspondent Rubaiyat Hossain class of 2002 filmmaker of feature films Under Construction and Made in Bangladesh Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy class of 2002 documentarian winner of two Academy Awards Julia Scott class of 2002 NPR and New York Times journalist Kimberly Drew class of 2012 art curator and cultural criticNotable staff EditMain article 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 99 Newton Arvin American literary critic and academic Leonard Baskin an artist who taught at Smith from 1953 to 1974 Mary Ellen Chase educator and author taught English at Smith from 1926 to 1955 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 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 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