Stay Connected to Smith

• President Sarah has been selected for the prestigious Aspen-Kern Presidential Leadership Fellowship. She will work alongside other university leaders to navigate the landscape of higher education.
• Smith College is receiving more than $250,000 as part of the new Massachusetts Life Sciences Center’s (MLSC) Education and Workforce Development Grant Program. 
• President Sarah has been elected as the new chair of the Board for the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Massachusetts (AICUM).
• Who are the Smithies in the class of 2030? Check out some data on Smith’s newest group of students.

• The Smith 2035 Vision Statement forms a framework for pondering how the college’s future will unfold in relation to trends and challenges, known and unknown, in society, culture and higher education.
• The Campus Use Plan (CUP) is a flexible framework that will help make Smith a more connected campus physically, socially, and technologically. The CUP will help strengthen both the campus and the community.
• Smith’s innovative geothermal campus energy project will help the college achieve carbon neutrality by 2030.

Explore your alum website. Bookmark the site, then check back often to watch webinars, learn about upcoming events, see what fellow Smithies are up to and much more.

• Webinars—check out the Alum Career Program YouTube channel for one of our previously recorded webinars, including:
  • Leading Through Moral Ambition
  • How to Thrive in Your Career
  • Non-Traditional Career Paths
  • Grow Through Pressure
• Take a look at our newly refreshed events calendar to stay in the loop on programs happening online, on campus, or near you!
• Browse the Smith College YouTube Channel. You might especially like the YouTube Playlist Smith Alumnae Today, which includes videos like Scout Cuomo ’06: A Life of Art.
• Check in with your local club to see what programs are offered in your regional community.
• Travel with Smith to the National Parks, Istanbul, and Athens.
• Check out the new digital version of the Smith Quarterly, a special double issue highlighting Smith’s strategic plan. Alums, go green and sign up to receive the digital only issue.
• Explore over 60 different languages with free access to Mango Languages through The Network (click on the Library Benefits).
• Learn more about Professor Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor’s upcoming author conversation in Boston, Massachusetts, where she will discuss her new memoir Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me. 
• Early bird registration is now open for the inaugural Smith in Africa reunion in Cape Town, South Africa, which will take place in March 2027!

• Carol Hillman ’49 has been named the sole Franklin County recipient of the Commonwealth Heroine award. This award goes to women who make major contributions to nonprofits and organizations across Massachusetts.
• Using her background in design thinking, Jenn Maer ’93 has been working to help others make new friends.
• AC Manning ’25 is among 30 students chosen to be a part of the first cohort of the Lafayette Fellowship. The scholarship will allow Manning to complete a master’s degree program in France.
• Janice Barger ’79 is helping to preserve Lake Warner in Hadley, Massachusetts, by providing an over $500,000, five-year restoration grant.

• Queenswood by Kathleen Feeley Schwab ’89
• A Mood, A Thought, A Feeling: Interiors by Young-Choo Lee Huh ’91
• The Poems of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath ’55 
• The Death and Life of Gentrification: A New Map of a Persistent Idea byJaponica Brown-Saracino ’99

• Learn more about how Sagufta Anchal ’27 and Faithrose Daniel ’27 are working on initiatives in Kenya and Bangladesh this summer through the Davis Projects for Peace program.
• Through her internship with Massachusetts Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa, Beatriz Cazho Garcia ’28 is proving that young people are still engaged in politics.  
• Read how Beatrice Tauer ’27 is spending her summer interning at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London and what she is learning from this experience.
• Eleanor Wu ’26, who is a Smith College scholarship recipient, speaks about what being a Smithie means to her, and how financial aid opened up doors for both her and her family.
• Seunghyeon Kim ’26 shares how receiving scholarship support from Smith allowed her to get a quality education without any limitations.