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Sherrerd Center for Teaching & Learning
Bass Hall 416 & Seelye Hall B8
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
The Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning was founded in 2009 through a generous bequest from the family of Kathleen Compton Sherrerd ’54 and John J. F. Sherrerd, longtime supporters of excellence in teaching at Smith College. The center enables the academic success of all Smith students through faculty development efforts that support teaching and learning at the college.
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Fall schedule coming out later this summer. Watch for details about our events! Have a great, relaxing summer.
Sherrerd Center's Theme for 2020-2021: Connectivity
This academic year at Smith is one unlike any other. The vast majority of our students are away from campus, learning in remote environments, both across the US and across the world. When COVID-19 shut down our campus in the Spring of 2020, many of us thought this would be a brief break from daily life and all would return to normal soon, but instead, this has become a sustained experience for our community. During the 20-21 academic year, we plan to use connectivity as our guiding principle in our Sherrerd Center programming. With trauma from the global pandemic, the continuation of brutal racial injustices in the US, and a contentious US election cycle all coalescing, it is arguably more important than ever to feel connected to our community – and yet, it has never been harder. In the work that we do at the Sherrerd Center for teaching and learning, we hope to center anti-racism, teaching in and amidst trauma, and the best inclusive practices in the remote classroom so that we can remain connected: to our core mission, and to each other in the Smith community.
Administration/Leadership
Sara Pruss
Director of the Sherrerd Center
Professor of Geosciences
Sherry Wingfield
Sherrerd Center Coordinator
Advisory Board
2020–21 Members
Jean Ferguson
Director of Learning, Research, and Technology
Angie Hauser
Associate Professor of Dance
Susannah Howe
Design Clinic Director, Senior Lecturer in Engineering, Class Dean 2020–21
Borjana Mikic
Rosemary Bradford Hewlett 1940 Professor of Engineering
Roisin O'Sullivan
Professor of Economics
Cornelia Pearsall
Professor of English Language & Literature
Beth Powell
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Kevin Shea
Professor of Chemistry
Tina Wildhagen
Associate Professor of Sociology (Sabbatical 2020–21)
Sujane Wu
Associate Professor of Chinese Language & Literature