Activism faces off against academia at Smith College By Nicole Neily, March 8, 2021 “Comfort or freedom?” former Smith College employee Jodi Shaw asked her growing YouTube audience after announcing her resignation from the notoriously progressive school in Northampton. “More and more of us will have to make (this) choice.” Sadly, she’s right. American higher …
Smith College Staff Member Resigns, Alleging ‘Racism’ Against White People By Katie Goss ’23, March 7, 2021 Jodi Shaw, the former student support coordinator in the Department of Residence Life at Smith College, publicly resigned from the college at the end of February due to what she called a “racially hostile environment.” She outlined that …
The Episode That Roiled Smith College To the Editor: March 6, 2021 Re “Tensions Simmer Over Race and Class at Smith” (front page, Feb. 25): I am disheartened by the coverage of the recent resignation of a white staff member at Smith College over what she calls a “racially hostile workplace” (for white people) in …
Smith College and the racist incident that wasn’t By Matthew Stewart, March 4, 2021 The New York Times recently reopened a story that it first reported on in July 2018. Back then the Times joined other national media in recounting an alleged story of racism at Smith College, an elite all-women’s school in Northampton, Massachusetts. Last week’s update by reporter Michael …
Smith College Defends Focus On Diversity After Employee Claims Bias Against White Staff By Karen Brown, March 3, 2021 A former Smith College employee says she has filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination charging a hostile environment for white people on campus. Jodi Shaw, who worked in the student support office, has …
Crying ‘racism’ at Smith College By Gene Lyons, March 3, 2021 Had I not once spent a semester living adjacent to the Smith College campus in Massachusetts years ago, I’d probably never have read Michael Powell’s extraordinary New York Times account of a tragi-comic racial debacle there. Ho-hum. Isn’t this what they do at these …
Smith College controversy highlights struggles schools face in making racially equitable campuses By Taylor Romine, March 2, 2021 (CNN)In the summer of 2018, Oumou Kanoute read a book and ate her lunch in a common room area of a Smith College residence hall that required keycard access. Since she was in a program teaching high …
Smith College and the Failing Liberal Bargain By Bret Stephens, March 1, 2021 Like many readers of The Times, I was riveted by Michael Powell’s account last week of a 2018 incident at Smith College that illustrated the tension between issues of race and class. It’s a striking — and increasingly familiar — tale of the …