In an Oct. 18 email to the Smith Community, President Kathleen McCartney announced that the Smith College Board of Trustees voted in its October meeting to “direct Investure, the college’s outsourced endowment management firm, to exclude from the Smith College endowment all future investments with fossil fuel-specific managers” and also voted to enact a “phaseout of all current investments with fossil fuel-specific managers in the Smith College endowment.”
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On Thursday, Campus Police responded to reports of swastikas drawn on the walls of Seelye, Bass and Burton halls. The swastikas were drawn in what appeared to be red marker.
Last week, the newly formed campus safety advisory group hosted a series of open forums to discuss the future of Smith College’s soon to be independent police department. The forums were intended to collect feedback from the Smith community as the advisory group begins deciding what to suggest to President McCartney in shaping the new department, which will go into effect starting July 1.
On Wednesday, the Smith Students for Social Justice and Institutional Change (SSJIC) held its first open meeting for the fall of 2019. The purpose of the meeting was to follow up on student demands and discuss the aftermath of the spring protests.
On June 10, Smith and Mount Holyoke announced that after 10 years of having a combined force, the two campus police departments will be operating independently of each other effective July 1, 2020.
If you’re a returning Smith student, you may have noticed some changes in the college’s Residence Life system. As students were informed in an email on August 26, the ResLife department has extensively restructured its staff and hierarchies in order to “better meet the needs of students and the communities they live in.” This notably involves a restructuring of student staff. Previously, traditional houses each had one Head Resident (HR) and one House Community Advisor (HCA). Now each house has two HCAs while HRs are in charge of several houses within each neighborhood. Additionally, the “areas of campus” have been shuffled and transformed into four “neighborhoods,” named for notable Smith features.
If you’re a returning Smith student, you may have noticed some changes in the college’s Residence Life system. As students were informed in an email on August 26, the ResLife department has extensively restructured its staff and hierarchies in order to “better meet the needs of students and the communities they live in.” This notably involves a restructuring of student staff. Previously, traditional houses each had one Head Resident (HR) and one House Community Advisor (HCA). Now each house has two HCAs while HRs are in charge of several houses within each neighborhood. Additionally, the “areas of campus” have been shuffled and transformed into four “neighborhoods,” named for notable Smith features.
Kathleen McCartney, President of Smith College, Floyd Cheung, Smith’s newly appointed Vice President for Equity and Inclusion and Susan Etheredge, Dean of the College and…
Kathleen McCartney, President of Smith College, Floyd Cheung, Smith’s newly appointed Vice President for Equity and Inclusion and Susan Etheredge, Dean of the College and…
In January 2019, Daniel Hect was hired as the campus police chief for Smith and Mount Holyoke. After students from both schools saw the anti-immigrant, pro-Trump tweets he had liked and retweeted, they spoke out against the newly appointed Hect.