First-Year Experience: Creating Social Change With Special Collections, September 17
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Published September 3, 2026
If you’re interested in creating social change, then you’re interested in Special Collections at Smith!
As part of the First-Year Experience Program, Smith College Special Collections is hosting an open house:
Thursday, September 17 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in Neilson 303.
Housed in Neilson Library, Special Collections includes unique photographs, letters, diaries, posters, oral histories, and printed texts documenting movements for social change, including reproductive justice and queer rights. Learn how historic activism can inform your own activism today in this hands-on workshop!
Sign up here. Note: The program is open to all first-year students, but will be capped at 25 students.