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Swarthmore College es una universidad privada de artes liberales [1] localizada en Swarthmore, Pensilvania, 11 millas (18 km) al suroeste de Filadelfia. Swarthmore es considerada la tercera mejor universidad de artes liberales en los Estados Unidos según U.S. News and World Report .
Swarthmore College (/ ˈ s w ɔːr θ m ɔːr / SWORTH-mor, locally / ˈ s w ɑː θ m ɔːr / SWAHTH-mor) is a private liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States.
- Suburban, 425 acres (172 ha)
- Valerie Smith
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Swarthmore College es una universidad privada de artes liberales localizada en Swarthmore, Pensilvania, 11 millas (18 km) al suroeste de Filadelfia. Swarthmore es considerada la tercera mejor universidad de artes liberales en los Estados Unidos según U.S. News and World Report.
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Valerie Smith was born on February 19, 1956, and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her father, W. Reeves Smith, was a professor of biology at Long Island University, and her mother, Josephine Smith, a public school teacher; both moved from Charleston, South Carolina to New York. Smith has said of her time in Brooklyn: "I grew up in a family that really...
In 1980, she began teaching at Princeton University, where she held appointments in the departments of English and African-American studies. After teaching for nine years at Princeton, Smith went to the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was appointed a professor in the English department. In 1989, Smith along with Emory Elliott, Marg...
In 2001, she returned to Princeton where she was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature and Professor of English and African American Studies, as well as the founding director of the Center for African American Studies. A year later she was asked to serve as the director of the university's African American Studies program eventually turning in...
In February 2015, the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College unanimously approvedSmith as the next president of the college and announced that she would begin her tenure on July 1, 2015. She would also hold appointments in English Literature and Black Studies.
Smith lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. She has served as trustee of her alma mater Bates College (2004-2015), the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, and the McCarter Theater Center.[citation needed]
She has been awarded fellowships from the Alphonse G. Fletcher Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2009, Smith won Princeton's President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. In 2016, she received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Hong Kong Baptist Universityand delivered a distinguished le...
Smith is the author of three monographs: Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative (1987), Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings (1998), and Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral Imagination(2012). She is the editor or co-editor of seven books, and the author of over forty articles.
Official links 1. Valarie Smith at Swarthmore College 2. Valerie Smith at Princeton University News links 1. Valerie Smith at PhillyVoice.com
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Swarthmore College, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is a liberal arts college offering bachelor’s degree programs in humanities, social sciences, biological sciences, physics, engineering, and other areas.
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Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore College has given students the knowledge, insight, skills, and experience to become leaders for the common good. Offering a liberal arts and engineering curriculum, the College is private, yet open to all regardless of financial need.
Swarthmore’s idyllic, 425-acre arboretum campus features rolling lawns, a creek, wooded hills, and hiking trails. It is located just 11 miles from Philadelphia. The diversity of perspectives represented by Swarthmore students, faculty, and staff—including different viewpoints, identities, and histories—contributes to the community’s ...
