Smith College Closing Ombuds Office

In the face of budget cuts, the President of Smith College has announced that College's 11-year-old Ombuds Office will close by July 1, 2009. Adrianne Andrews, who served as Smith College's first full-time Ombuds since July 2001 (and who also served as Mt. Holyoke's Ombuds on a shared part-time for 1½ years), will become an advisor for equity complaints in the Office of Institutional Diversity. (Smith College Close-of-Semester Update.)