{"id":1794,"date":"1997-04-03T01:50:25","date_gmt":"1997-04-03T01:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2018-10-31T13:32:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:32:20","slug":"president-simmons-announces-plans-to-increase-and-maintain-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1997\/04\/03\/president-simmons-announces-plans-to-increase-and-maintain-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"President Simmons announces plans to increase and maintain diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 3, 1997<\/p>\n<p>President Simmons announces plans to increase and maintain diversity<\/p>\n<p><i>President Simmons announced that she planned to use a discretionary leadership fund granted by the Knight Foundation to recruit and retain a diverse student body and faculty. She proposed putting money to that effect toward the Office of Institutional Diversity, the Smith Summer Science Program, the Ada Comstock program, and visiting scholars.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The full Sophian article on the planned initiatives can be found here (<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1997.04.10.-Smith-Plans-to-Expand-Diversity-1.jpg\"><i>1<\/i><\/a><i>, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1997.04.10.-Smith-Plans-to-Expand-Diversity-2.jpg\"><i>2<\/i><\/a><i>).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 31, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 3, 1997 President Simmons announces plans to increase and maintain diversity President Simmons announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[81,84],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990s","tag-81","tag-institutional-action","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}