Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 211, the Smith dining and housekeeping union, has reached an agreement for their new contract after almost five months of negotiations. The first official meeting for negotiating the new contract was May 25, and the contract was signed Nov. 14.
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Smith held its annual celebration of Otelia and Adelaide Cromwell, its first Black alumna and professor respectively, on Nov. 15. The keynote speaker on this…
On Monday, Nov. 7, students attended classes without being required to wear a mask for the first time since the start of the pandemic. The…
As the second month of classes draws to a close, some students on campus are still going home to linen closets, studies and living rooms.…
During her poetry reading on Oct. 18 in Weinstein Auditorium, Smith professor Arda Collins explored the themes of the underlying humor in grief and the…
This article originally appeared in the October 2022 print edition. Construction workers broke ground on Upper Elm in May 2022 for Smith’s Geothermal Energy Project.…
Friday, October 21 at 12:55 p.m., members of the Smith College United Student Labor Action Coalition (USLAC) and other protesting students forcibly entered the President’s…
Smith’s COVID-19 Incident Response Team (CIRT) announced in an email on Sept. 14, 2022, that the college would increase COVID-19 restrictions by mandating masking in…
Sarah Willie-LeBreton was named the new President of Smith College on Thursday, Sept. 15, and will begin her term on July 1, 2023. This announcement…
Shouting students stood outside the entrance to the Indoor Track and Tennis Facility (ITT) while, inside, President McCartney held her fall party on Friday, Sept. 9. The mass of students chanting “1 2 3 4, we won't take it anymore! 5 6 7 8, come on Kathy, negotiate!” were protesting the college’s treatment of its dining and housekeeping workers in ongoing contract negotiations.