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Smith College is private womens' liberal arts college in Northhampton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1871, the school is well established in the arts and the humanities as well as the sciences, and has over 50 areas of study. The school also supports numerous extra-curricular and co-curricular opportunities as well as a number of services to aid students in achieving their diverse goals.

== <span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span> ==

<span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a liberal arts college, Smith has mostly focused on encouraging and supporting faculty as researchers and teachers. While this does allow innovation in terms of designing courses and workshops, there is little encouragement towards entrepreneurial ventures. Deeply academic individuals, the faculty demonstrates limited interest in these areas of work. However, a recently launched series of design thinking workshops for faculty, and the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning show promise of an emerging I&E culture among the faculty. Further efforts to strengthen and support this transformation is necessary, however, in order to have the culture established and accepted.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Smith Career Development Office maintains a website, E-access, a platform for finding jobs and internships in industry. The office also notifies students of upcoming job and internship application deadlines or opportunities via regular emails. University-industry collaboration is also strengthened by field trips, conferences, and alumnae outreach. The academic departments also facilitate major-specific industry communication by forwarding information about opportunities to students. However, these opportunities are limited and do not accommodate a broad variety of academic and vocational interests.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-51b08a59-e08b-3596-e9bd-ddc7ea01d93a"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smith College has limited engagement in regional and local development efforts, and shows little interest in it. Initiative is yet to be taken to launch such efforts.</span></span>

== <span style="font-size:small;">'''Landscape Canvas 2016&nbsp;'''</span><br/> ==

<div><span style="font-size:small;">'''[[Smith College - Landscape Canvas 2016.ods|Smith_College_-_Landscape_Canvas_2016.ods]]'''&nbsp;</span></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:small;">'''Landscape Canvas Overview slides:'''&nbsp;</span><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:small;">[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PG0HFTQA-snWZJ5x4PmFIoyYBeQEHhwG0P95MHlqyMU/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PG0HFTQA-snWZJ5x4PmFIoyYBeQEHhwG0P95MHlqyMU/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14]</span></div><div><br/></div>

= <span style="color:#808080;"><span style="font-size:small;">Other Related Links:</span></span> =

<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">[[Smith College Student Priorities|Smith_College_Student_Priorities]]</span><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:smaller;">[[Smith College - Landscape Canvas 2016.ods|Smith_College_-_Landscape_Canvas_2016.ods]]</span><br/></div><div><br/></div>

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