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With financial support from the Permanent Charity Fund of Boston and the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, which Southard headed, the training course began in July of 1918 with sixty-three students. [1] The course became a permanent program in 1919. [2] F. Stuart Chapin, Smith College professor of sociology, was appointed the first director.
A view of Smith's campus c. 1900. The college was chartered in 1871 by a bequest of Sophia Smith and opened its doors in 1875 with 14 students and 6 faculty. [13] When Smith inherited a fortune from her father aged 65, she decided that leaving her inheritance to found a women's college was the best way for her to fulfill the moral obligation she expressed in her will: [14]
The consortium was founded in 1915 when Vassar President Henry Noble MacCracken called Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, and Mount Holyoke together “to deliver women opportunities for higher education that would improve the quality of life for the human family and that would put them on an equal footing with men in a democracy that was about to offer them the vote.” [3] The success of this Four ...
Mount St. Scholastica College, Atchison (merged with all-male St. Benedict's College in 1971 to form Benedictine College) Oswego College for Young Ladies, Oswego (closed in 1910) University of Saint Mary, Leavenworth (co-ed since 1988; Saint Mary College until 2003) Vail College, Topeka (closed in 1928; also known as College of the Sisters of ...
Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college with coed graduate and certificate programs, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States.The Smith College Archives document the life of the College by collecting materials created by students, faculty, administrative and departmental staff during the course of their time here.
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Her first book, The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment, won the 2008 National Women's Studies Association Sara A. Whaley book prize. [13]For her teaching, Baker was awarded the 2006 Dave and Lu Garrett Award for Meritorious Teaching at Berry College, [14] the 2018 Student Government Association Annual Teaching Award at Smith College, [15] and the 2020 Sherrerd Teaching Award at Smith ...