Founded two years ago, Smith’s resident Shakespeare Company was officially chartered last spring, right before the pandemic hit. Like many other performing arts groups, Shakes had to learn how to adapt theatre within the limitations of a Zoom screen.
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On April 1, President of Smith, Kathleen McCartney, hosted a Presidential Colloquium on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. Joining her were two disability rights activists, Judy Heumann and Tom Hehir.
When Smith opened for Spring 2021, about 1300 of Smith’s 2500 students came back to their dorm rooms according to Student Affairs, however many have opted to complete the semester remotely.
I spend all day studying. I worry if I don't keep working I will fall behind. I desperately want to take time for myself, but I can’t seem to relax. Like most students, I need a break. But our two-day spring break, Meadow Day, is not enough during such an overwhelming time.
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?
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.