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Smith Scholars With Places to Go The Kahn Institute: Exile and Activism
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President Invited West On several occasions, Smith College President Ruth Simmons was out West this summer. In mid-June, Simmons was one of 25 honorees invited to share career reflections and experiences with 400 outstanding high school students from across the country at the American Academy of Achievement awards in Scottsdale, Arizona. Described by the Wall Street Journal as "the glitziest gathering nobody knows," the academy's annual banquet, designed to encourage achievement among high school students, brought together an unusual cross section of leaders and innovators. Among them were Red Cross President Bernadine Healy, Grammy awardwinning singer and songwriter Lauryn Hill and neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. Past honorees have included General Colin Powell, journalist and author Bob Woodward and civil rights leader Coretta Scott King. Later that month, Simmons was a featured speaker at a seminar on affirmative action sponsored by the Vail Valley Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational organization devoted to promoting public policy debate. Past seminars, each held in Vail, Colorado, have addressed such topics as support for the arts, immigration and population, media responsibility, and the war on drugs. |
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