Spring classes are underway and it's time to purchase required course materials. Unfortunately, 65% of college students will have to make do without some of their assigned textbooks. Others will have to drop classes because the cost of required materials is simply too high.
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In 2017, the Pew Research Center reported that a quarter of American adults identify as “spiritual but not religious”. At Smith, we are exposed to this phenomenon on a daily basis.
A few weeks ago, during Thanksgiving break, I had the time to reflect on my first semester of college.
Who isn’t experiencing pandemic fatigue? It’s easy to think that feeling worn out is just a sign of the end of the semester in 2020; but it’s not.
It’s not until mile five that I get that flying feeling.
There are red modes and green modes and phases of arrival; weekly testing, mandatory masking, and “enhanced” remote formats; a .02 coronavirus positivity rate at “peer institutions”; and an expected 1,700 undergraduate Smith students welcome back on campus.
Dear Smith College students, faculty, staff, and fellow alums, Recently, a White staff member at the College began posting inflammatory videos to a YouTube account,…
As college students around the country awaited an announcement from their school’s leadership regarding the decision for the Fall 2020 semester, people everywhere were asking a similar logistical question: what do I think is the best solution for education during a pandemic?
We asked the Ada community if they had any advice they wished they could go back and tell their younger selves. Here’s what they told us…
I remember once walking into ninth grade English a few minutes early, hoping to clock in a few pages of Twilight before the bell rang-- a book my older sister recommended, and with which I was quickly becoming obsessed.