Smith’s Diploma Circle tradition began in 1911 as the “Great Ring.” Today, it follows every Commencement. Before celebrating ...

1988 Black Alumnae Weekend attendees include Rosalind (Roz) Twine Wilson ’94, Jean Robins ’75, Jacqueline Sawyer ’74, Jocelyn ...

So when my beloved guidance counselor, Lillian Cave, insisted I join a group of students she was taking to the NAACP College ...

“I wanted my students to understand that everything was passing too fast for them, as it did for me once, and that they ...

I n 1999, at 18 years old, I chose to attend Smith because it had the three things I was looking for in a college: It was a ...

Another definition, however, would enable individuals to bring their whole selves into an ecosystem—say, a college—and have ...

The San Francisco resident hadn’t initially considered a women’s college. But she decided to see Smith for herself and ...

Take a rich cultural journey through ancient Greek and Roman civilization and study texts that confront universal issues of the human condition: love and death, freedom and tyranny, justice and ...

Crystal Fleming is a critical race sociologist and scholar of antiracism whose work explores black feminist and Africana perspectives on racial justice, collective memory and spirituality. She is the ...

Katherine Dugan is an associate professor of religious studies at Springfield College. She studies gender, reproduction, and Catholicism in the U.S. She is at work on an ethnography of Catholic ...

Nancy Jimenez Zigler (she/ella) is the Director of Programs and Partnerships at the Jandon Center for Community Engagement. At Smith, she also teaches part-time as a university lecturer in the field ...

Erica Banks’s research interests focus broadly on the study of race and ethnicity, gender, feminist theory, inequality and poverty, crime and law, and qualitative methods. Banks currently teaches ...