Thanks to Smith’s open curriculum and breadth of classes, it’s easy for students to take sustainability focused courses, no matter their major. Students can pick a major with an environmental focus ...

Introduced in 2024, the Smith Office for the Arts (SOFA) presents Smith Arts Day, a daylong celebration of the artistic and creative community at Smith College, bringing the arts together—across ...

Smith College is committed to protecting the privacy, well-being, and safety of our community. Below are resources for students, faculty, and staff members. Additional resources will be provided as ...

Joining a long list of speakers who have imparted insight and advice to Smith graduates, activist Reshma Saujani will deliver the keynote address in this year’s Commencement ceremony. She will also ...

Approximately 1,300 students will be coming to Smith over seven arrival days, with more than 80 percent being required to quarantine in a campus room or local hotel until they receive their first ...

Dear Smith College Religion Department alums and current majors & minors, We want to stay connected with you! To that end, we create a newsletter each year, offering updates about the department and ...

At Smith today, caps and gowns are worn at Commencement to symbolize unity and academic achievement. Academic dress is believed to have originated at medieval British universities. At Smith’s first ...

Smith’s housing system is unique. Here, most students live on campus throughout their college career (though off-campus housing is available after your first year) in house communities, not standard ...

Jay Wright is the author of eight books of poems, including The Homecoming Singer (1971), Dimensions Of History (1976), Selected Poems (1987), and Boleros(1991). In 1996 the Chancellors of the Academy ...

Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf: A Choreo-Poem, with its spectrum of revelatory voices exploring a black woman’s experience, changed the face of ...

With singular force and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt explores relationships between human character and human destiny in meticulously crafted, quietly potent poems that move through autobiography, ...

Meena Alexander has called herself a “woman cracked by multiple migrations.” Born in India, raised in Sudan, educated in England, and currently a resident of New York City, she has drawn on ...