If you had told me this time last year that I would be rhapsodizing about romance novels I would have laughed in your face. But how could I have predicted what 2020 would bring?
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Pursuing a higher education is a privilege, particularly for marginalized communities across the nation, which I know firsthand as a Latine student raised in Spanish Harlem.
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.
On Feb. 18, Smith College honored four alumnae with Smith College Medals; two faculty members with Faculty Teaching Awards (Will Williams, Associate Professor of Physics,…
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.
Over this past week, Jodi Shaw, a student support coordinator in residence life at Smith, posted three Youtube videos accusing Smith of anti-white hostility and…
Lately, I’ve been trying to locate the things for which I am thankful, even in the midst of what is arguably one of the most uncertain moments of my lifetime. The past six months have felt blurred somehow, as though the haze of this pandemic has permeated nearly everything we do; the spaces we inhabit, the people we surround ourselves with, the parts of the world within which we seek refuge. It has felt impossible not to fixate on the enormity of it; the manifold ways in which it can encumber us.
Original por Amanda Chisolm 21 de agosto de 2020
Traducción por Laisha Aniceto 30 del agosto de 2020
A pesar de la reciente decisión de Smith College de ir completamente remotamente en
línea durante el semestre de otoño de 2020, la universidad no reducirá su matrícula
2020-21.
On Sunday, Aug. 31, Smith held its first-ever digital Convocation. The event, which was held as a webinar over Zoom, featured addresses from the…
In a school-wide email sent on Aug. 27, Smith disclosed that an on-campus community member has tested positive for COVID-19. Due to privacy laws, the…