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Climate Change Research at Smith College
No full textExplore our Digital Exhibit bringing together a living, updated collection of Smith research and scholarship that addresses the climate crisis.https://scholarworks.smith.edu/gallery/1013/thumbnail.jp
Open Educational Resources at Smith with Professor Kevin Shea
No full textOER (Open Educational Resources) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
Smith College chemistry professor Kevin Shea discusses his experience using and creating OERs, and encourages other Smith faculty to consider the benefits of OERs in their classrooms. Interested in OERs? Smith College Libraries have a wealth of resources to help you start your journey. Go to Smith College Libraries OER Guide to learn more
Correspondence to Elizabeth Cisney Smith and Augustus Edwin Smith
No full textLetters to Elizabeth Cisney Smith and Augustus Edwin Smith from their fathers, William H. Cisney and T. H. Smith. The letters demonstrate how supportive and proud the Smith's families were of them attending medical school and their ability to continue their studies while raising a family and working. Elizabeth Cisney Smith graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1911. She practiced medicine for 35 years in Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Dakota and Maryland; and was active in the women's rights and suffrage movement
Smith and Smith: Achieving Sustainable Education Together: A qualitative study of the potential for Smith College to reach it’s own goals of sustainability by beginning a learning exchange with Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School
No full textAt Smith College we lack a major program of study in Environmental Science and Policy, and as a part of our sustainability initiative on campus, we should expand our curriculum to branch out, into the Northampton community and form an educational agreement with Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School. Graduates of Smith College should have a grasp of the vocational fields offered at Smith High School be able to make ecologically sound decisions for themselves, the community and the planet. Smith College should take notice and participate with the local community where there is great potential to change the dominant modes of thought through education. There is also great potential for crossover education in academic and vocational subjects at the high school level as well as at Smith College. We can look at SVAHS as a model institution as well as a partner in experiential and transformative learning
Sustainability at Smith Project: Environmental Impact in Smith Residences
No full textEducational institutions have the ability and the important responsibility to address issues of sustainable development and environmental issues within the student body. Students in Smith College residents alone consume large amounts of resources and make substantial contributions to the waste stream during the academic year. The goal of my project was to encourage students to question and adjust their environmental impact through improved infrastructure for environmental education in houses, in addition to new recycling and energy saving programs. In creating these programs, I met with Bob Pattee, the director of Smith Physical Plant, and Angie Fowler, the director of the Five-College Recycling Program and the Smith Earth Rep Coordinator. For this project, I created a paid student position under Bob Pattee that is responsible for educating Smith students about their environmental impact, specifically through biannual charts showing resource consumption over time from Physical Plant data. I also provided a monetary incentive and improved resources and organization for Smith house Earth Reps to be more effective in providing environmental information to their houses. I made several improvements to the recycling program in Smith residences, including a paid student position for recycling pick-up outside of student\u27s rooms and improved advertising for the recycling competition between houses. Additionally, I created a program to reduce student energy consumption by supplying them with more efficient light bulbs to install in their rooms. Research has shown that environmental impact education can have a positive effect of individual behavior (Geller 1989; Buttel 1987 in Creighton 1998). These programs also provide incentives and make it more convenient for students to take responsibility for their resource consumption and waste contributions. I feel that I have created a strong base for improved environmental education in Smith residences, but awareness is only the first step to creating solutions. I would recommend that future programs be dedicated to encouraging a sense of place and environmental stewardship among students in the hope that they will take those values with them when they leave Smith
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