Welcome to Academic Affairs at Simmons College.
As Provost of Simmons College, I see our graduates as global citizens, changing, leading, communicating, and competing in a world market. The faculty's excellence in teaching, research, service and our rigorous, relevant, liberal arts and focused, state of the art undergraduate and graduate professional curricula prepare our students for the globalized, diverse, market-oriented, online, inter-connected, rapidly changing, economically volatile world they will face.
True to our founder's mission to enable young women to earn "an independent livelihood" and our founding president's commitment to "widen the horizon and sharpen the intellectual powers" of our students, Simmons' vision today is to become, in President Helen Drinan's words, "a beacon of leadership in ... higher education ... known for our expertise in fields which improve the human condition ... global expert in educating women for empowerment and leadership."
Simmons undergraduate women and graduate women and men have the opportunity to learn from an enormously talented faculty, excellent teachers and dedicated scholars. Simmons' five deans, whom you meet on these pages, are exemplary academics in their own right, as well as effective, able leaders of their schools. My team also includes the critical academic support areas, including the library, career center, service learning, academic technology, and the registrar.
Together with our colleagues across Simmons, we provide our students with transformative learning experiences that link passion with lifelong purpose.
Please contact us with any questions and suggestions.
Charlena Seymour, Provost
