Smith College
| Smith College | |
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| motto |
Ἐν τῇ ἀρετῇ τὴν γνῶσιν ("Knowledge complements virtue") |
| founding | 1871 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | Northampton (Massachusetts) , United States |
| President | Kathleen McCartney |
| Students | 2,664 (2013/2014) |
| Professors | 285 (2013/2014) |
| Foundation assets | 1.4 billion US $ (2012) |
| University sports | Pioneers |
| Networks | Five colleges |
| Website | www.smith.edu |
The Smith College in Northampton , Massachusetts , is the largest women's college of the United States and one of the most respected in the world. It is a private, non-denominational educational institution and a member of the " Seven Sisters ", the seven most prestigious women's colleges in the United States. The college is also one of the Five Colleges , a consortium of five universities in the Amherst and Northampton region.
Smith College was founded by Sophia Smith in 1871 and opened in 1875. The president since 2013 has been Kathleen McCartney, the former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The college rules require that all female students live and work on campus in order to support their camaraderie. There are currently around 2,750 female students enrolled and taught by 298 professors (as of 2015).
Only women are admitted as undergraduates . Men are also admitted as graduate students .
In the national ranking of the US News & World Report , Smith College was ranked 20th among the best liberal arts colleges in the United States for the 2014 academic year .
Personalities
Professors
see category: University Lecturers (Northampton, Massachusetts)
- Eleanor Duckett , classical philologist
- Alfred Einstein , musicologist
- Kurt Koffka , psychologist
- Kurt Vonnegut , writer
- Leonard Baskin , artist
- Mary Ellen Chase , writer
- Waltraut Seitter , astronomer
- Marjorie Senechal , mathematician
- Edgar Wind , art historian
- Klemens von Klemperer , historian
Graduates
- Tammy Baldwin , politician
- Joanna Barnes , actress and writer
- Harriet Boyd-Hawes , archaeologist
- Barbara Pierce Bush , wife of US President George HW Bush
- Dorothy Canning Miller , curator
- Julia Child , American writer and television chef
- Cheryl Crawford , Broadway producer
- Julie Nixon Eisenhower , daughter of US President Richard Nixon
- Betty Friedan , feminist and writer
- Meg Greenfield , journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Jean C. Harris , art historian and museum director
- Yolanda King , civil rights activist, actress and daughter of Martin Luther King
- Margaret Mitchell , writer
- Erin Morgenstern , author
- Cynthia Moss , researcher, conservationist
- Phebe Novakovic , manager
- Ruth Ozeki , author
- Leona May Peirce mathematician
- Sylvia Plath , poet
- Halina Poświatowska , Polish poet
- Nancy Davis Reagan , wife of US President Ronald Reagan
- Florence Rena Sabin , scientist
- Sandy Skoglund , photographer and installation artist
- Gloria Steinem , feminist and journalist
- Laura D. Tyson , economist
- Alice Morgan Wright , sculptor, women's and animal rights activist
Famous fictional female students and graduates
- Piper Chapman from the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black
- Emily Gilmore from the television series Gilmore Girls
- Esther Greenwood, protagonist of Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Glass
- Charlotte York from the television series Sex and the City
- Chenault, a character in Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary
- Cristina Yang from the television series Grey's Anatomy
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Smith College . In: US News & World Report . Retrieved December 12, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Smith at a Glance on smith.edu, accessed December 12, 2013.
- ↑ Some Special Traditions ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: Smith.edu . Retrieved December 12, 2013.
- ^ The 11th President of Smith College . On. Smith.edu . Retrieved December 12, 2013.
Web links
Coordinates: 42 ° 19 '5.2 " N , 72 ° 38' 17.3" W.