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SMITH IN THE NEWS
CONNECTING TO COMMUNITY COLLEGES "It opens up a whole new world
that they didn't know was in their grasp." "I feel like when I leave here
I can do anything." "Smith, Barnard and Wesleyan sponsor
partnerships aimed at giving community college students a taste
of a liberal arts education and perhaps eventually enrolling
them."
ANTICIPATING SMITH'S FIRST CAMPUS
CENTER "[The campus center] promises
to be much more than a building. It sits at the crossroads of
the campus and has the potential to significantly improve the
quality of campus life."
ENGINEERING: STARTING YOUNG "For instance, 69,000 engineers
graduated from American colleges last year, but we imported 25,000
from other countries to meet the need." "At first we had a lot of trouble
working together, but working on this game has showed us that
we can work as a team. That's our biggest accomplishment." "It's about getting students excited
about engineering design at the middle school age when many students
may lose interest in that. It's also about getting girls involved
in engineering." "The course we offer [in the Smith
Summer Science & Engineering Program] teaches a lot about
robotic design, programming, etc., but the girls build a robot
that does something they're interested in. It's not about winning
a prize."
SMITH'S 'HARRIMAN EXPEDITION RETRACED'
ON PBS "The subject matter and the academic
lineage connected me to the original participants. It just seemed
as though it was meant to be." "The exhaustive documentation
of the original 9,000-mile journey left us with a time capsule
we re-opened over the course of our 3-day voyage. We took on
the bewildering task of assessing a century of environmental
and social change that has swept the Alaska coast, one of the
world's wildest coastlines." "[During 'The Harriman Expedition
Retraced,'] we saw in Alaska if you stop overexploiting individual
species, they'll come back. But what if you're destabilizing
an entire ecosystem like the Bering Sea or the Tongass rain forest?
Will it come back?"
EXAMINING VIRGINIA WOOLF "It is truly a peak moment for
Woolf scholarship, but also for general, public curiosity about
the life and works of Virginia Woolf." "Like Virginia Woolf, Sophia Smith
received little formal education. Woolf didn't have Smith's vision
of an education equal to men." "As a women's college, Smith has
a great deal of interest in [Virginia Woolf's] works. They have
been included in the curriculum since the 1930s or 40s, and a
special Woolf seminar has been taught every other year since
the 1960s."
FACULTY AND STAFF VOICES "I've gotten calls from parents,
asking us what kindergarten they should send their five-year-old
to, or whether their fifth grader should go into private school." "It is ironic that working-class
soldiers will come home from Iraq to a socio-economic reality
that has been shaped by the costs of a huge military establishment.
Americans pay for an annual military budget of $400 billion and
rising-yet they go without national health insurance or affordable
childcare, and have an educational system full of inequities." "This is a woman who never flinched.
Never flinched. She just had a sense of right and wrong and went
toward the right never flinching because of fear of social standing,
because of fear of slander" "However disagreeably America
and Europe may now strike each other, a divorce remains unthinkable." |
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