Trustee Grants

The trustees of Smith College offer tuition assistance to the daughters of those who have been residents of Northampton or Hatfield for at least five years, on the condition that the students are of traditional age and enrolled full time at Smith College. In 2010–11, the Trustee Grant was set at half the cost of tuition ($19,320 per student). Eighteen Northampton and Hatfield students received assistance in this program for awards totaling $318,780.

Financial Aid to Massachusetts Residents

In 2010–11, institutional financial aid to Massachusetts residents totaled $9.49 million.

Community College Support

Since 1999, Smith has provided classroom space to Greenfield Community and Holyoke Community colleges for evening adult education.

Adult Learning Center

As a member of Mayor Higgins’ Northampton Community Education Consortium—a coalition of adult basic education programs, workforce training, and family support services and higher education partners—Smith provided $20,000 in seed funding to help create an adult learning center in downtown Northampton. The center, which is in James House on Gothic Street, will co-locate Pioneer Valley community and four-year colleges, Adult Basic Education Programs, and Workforce Training and Family Support Service. It will provide integrated educational and career readiness and worker training programs and services to assist children, youth, adults and families who face challenges with English language, literacy or other barriers to successful education and work pathways. Currently Smith is working with the consortium to identify how the college faculty, staff and student volunteers will support programming at the James House in the upcoming academic year.

Class Auditors

Approximately 60 non-Smith members of the community audit courses at Smith each semester for $50 per course ($200 for dance, computer science or intensive language courses).