Smith is a community dedicated to learning, teaching, scholarship, discovery, creativity and critical thought.

Smith is committed to access and diversity, recruiting and supporting talented, ambitious women of all backgrounds.

Smith educates women to understand the complexity of human history and the variety of the world's cultures through engagement with social, political, aesthetic and scientific issues.

Smith prepares women to fulfill their responsibilities to the local, national and global communities in which they live and to steward the resources that sustain them.