Simmons College (Massachusetts)

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**Simmons College**

Established	1899
Type	Private women's college
Endowment	$141,749,000
President	Susan C. Scrimshaw
Staff	193 faculty
Undergraduates	1,938 women
Postgraduates	2,840 men and women
Location	Boston, Mass., USA
Campus	Urban
Athletics	8 NCAA division III varsity teams
Nickname	Sharks
Affiliations	Colleges of the Fenway,Medical Academic and Scientific Community Organization
Website	www.simmons.edu

Simmons College is a liberal arts women's college in Boston, Massachusetts. Simmons was founded by John Simmons in 1899 to educate women in useful professions, so they could have an independent livelihood. Simmons is a member of the Colleges of the Fenway consortium which also includes Wentworth Institute of Technology, Wheelock College, and Massachusetts College of Art.

Its undergraduate program is single-sex, with 1800 students enrolled in the 2004-2005 academic year. Male relatives of staff members may attend the undergraduate college up to a certain credit limit, although they cannot receive Simmons diplomas.

The graduate schools (Library and Information Science, Social Work, Health Studies, Management, and an Arts and Sciences program which provide degrees in Education, Communications, Gender and Cultural Studies and Liberal Arts) are mostly co-ed. The exception to the coed graduate programs is the School of Management, which provides the world's only MBA for women only.

Simmons alumnae include Nnenna Freelon, Gwen Ifill, Denise DiNovi, Elinor Lipman, Ann Fudge, Rebecca Miller Sykes, Loni Barbach, Sage Vivant, and Audra Mika.

Simmons faculty include Nancy Bond, winner of a Newbery Honor, who taught at the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature from 1979 to 2001.

In 2006, the college's Board of Trustees elected Dr. Susan C. Scrimshaw to be the college's next president, following an 11-month search. Scrimshaw officially took office on July 1, 2006.

1 Overview of the campus
2 Academic structure
3 See also
4 External link

[edit] Overview of the campus

Simmons College currently consists of three separate campuses located near the Back Bay Fens in Boston:

[edit] Main Campus

The Main Campus is located at 300 The Fenway in the Longwood Medical Area. It is immediately adjacent to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Boston Latin School This campus currently consists of five buildings:

One Palace Road
Main College Building
Beatley Library
Lefavour Hall
Park Science Center

A great deal of construction is in progress on the main campus. As of 2006, a major overhaul of Beatley Library is ongoing, and a large project to replace a surface parking lot with a large underground garage has begun. The college has also announced plans for a new building on the main campus to house the School of Management, currently located elsewhere in Boston. Because of the planned construction, there will be little parking available on the campus during the 2006-2007 academic year.

[edit] Residence Campus

The Residence Campus is located several blocks from the main campus. It is near Landmark Center and the Fenway MBTA and the Longwood stop on the Green Line. The residence campus consists 13 buildings centered around a grassy quad:

Simmons Hall
Dix Hall
Smith Hall (Quadside Cafe)
Arnold Hall
North Hall
Health Center and Residence Life Offices
Holmes Sports Center
South Hall
Alumnae Hall
Bartol Dining Hall
Evans Hall
Mesick Hall
Morse Hall

Most of the buildings on the residence campus serve as dormitories, but the campus also includes a large dining hall, a health center, a large fitness center, a public safety office, an auditorium, and several other facilities.

Alumnae Hall recently had a fire due to a boiler malfunction, which resulted in it being shut down until at least January, 2007.

The residence campus is separated from the main campus by Emmanuel College and Merck Research Laboratories Boston.