Advancement exists to support the mission of the college as it is interpreted over time, a process that Sophia Smith recognized in her founding bequest that established the college. Smith's fund-raising initiatives are all based on our educational mission.

Here are resource materials related to key issues in higher education and current Smith priorities:

U.S. Government Department of Education: research, policy, statistics, online publications in PDF format

National Center for Educational Statistics Research findings on issues in education, all levels; online publications in PDF and print

Getting Ready to Pay for College: What Students and Their Parents Know About the Cost of College Tuition and What They Are Doing to Find Out (PDF file)

Projections of educational statistics to 2012: levels, gender, age, type of institution

Student Aid on the Web

Celebration of Women in Engineering, National Academy of Sciences; for parents, teachers, mentors, and engineers; information on careers, planning for college, and research on women in the profession