Campus Planning
Campus Planning works to ensure that all building and landscape projects align with the College’s mission, vision, and strategic goals while contributing to a campus that is welcoming, accessible, and fosters a strong sense of belonging. Collaborating closely with Capital Projects; the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability (CEEDS); Facilities Maintenance & Operations, and campus leadership, we follow an integrated approach rooted in proactive, inclusive, and fiscally responsible decision-making and project development. Our approach emphasizes community building, campus stewardship, and the thoughtful coordination of physical and financial resources to create places that support connection, participation, and the diverse ways our community lives, learns, and works at Smith.
Our Key Priorities
- Facilitating meaningful and inclusive engagement with the Smith community around scoping and planning, ensuring that a range of experiences and perspectives inform decisions.
- Creating welcoming, accessible, and inclusive spaces that strengthen community, connection, and a sense of belonging.
- Aligning investments with the College’s most important strategic and operational goals.
- Optimizing the use of institutional resources to maximize impact.
- Developing the data, tools, processes, and governance structures needed to support Smith’s strategic plan and inform equitable, transparent decision-making.
Campus Planning aims to shape a campus that reflects Smith’s values—one that is sustainable, innovative, inclusive, and thoughtfully designed to support the people and communities who use it.
Requests for Capital Projects
The Request for Capital Projects (RCP) form is a tool for Smith staff and faculty to submit requests for capital projects not addressed by the work request process.
Meet the Team
Please reach out to the Campus Planning team at campususeplan@smith.edu with any questions, comments, or big ideas.