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Conway opens with her assessment of her life, passions, possibilities and the making of her decision to leave Canada and return to the United States to become Smith's first woman president. Settling into her new environment, she is at once struck by the beauty of the Connecticut Valley and the Olmstead designed Smith Campus but also by the College's financial problems and a quarrelsome and complaining faculty engaged in disputes and trivial lawsuits. The jolt of energy she gets from being in the presence of several thousand young women enables her to take on the various Smith constituencies. We see her harnessing the negative energies in more positive directions, strategising, positioning herself and building a political base, introducing feminist scholarship into the curriculum, creating a programme for older students and a funded research centre, adding fields of study and athletic programmes, developing strong career counselling, changing investment strategy, increasing the endowment and, in general, mobilising the institution to share the urgency she felt for shaping the kind of women's institution that would attract the students of the 90s and beyond. As the end of the Smith decade approaches she reviews that she has learned and decides that she has had her education and that it is time to graduate.
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Amazing story of Jill Kerr Conway, home-educated in the Australian outback, who was told she could never achieve academically, but who went on to get a PhD, write bestselling books, become the first woman president of the prestigious Smith College in America, and is now one of Australia's leading inspiring figures. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Conway opens with her assessment of her life, passions, possibilities and the making of her decision to leave Canada and return to the United States to become Smith's first woman president. Settling into her new environment, she is at once struck by the beauty of the Connecticut Valley and the Olmstead designed Smith Campus but also by the College's financial problems and a quarrelsome and complaining faculty engaged in disputes and trivial lawsuits. The jolt of energy she gets from being in the presence of several thousand young women enables her to take on the various Smith constituencies. We see her harnessing the negative energies in more positive directions, strategising, positioning herself and building a political base, introducing feminist scholarship into the curriculum, creating a programme for older students and a funded research centre, adding fields of study and athletic programmes, developing strong career counselling, changing investment strategy, increasing the endowment and, in general, mobilising the institution to share the urgency she felt for shaping the kind of women's institution that would attract the students of the 90s and beyond. As the end of the Smith decade approaches she reviews that she has learned and decides that she has had her education and that it is time to graduate.
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Amazing story of Jill Kerr Conway, home-educated in the Australian outback, who was told she could never achieve academically, but who went on to get a PhD, write bestselling books, become the first woman president of the prestigious Smith College in America, and is now one of Australia's leading inspiring figures. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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