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Education
Smith earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology and Higher Education at the Claremont Graduate University, her M.A. from Stanford University, and her B.A. in Mathematics from Cornell University.
Biography
Prior to assuming her current faculty position at CGU in 1987, Daryl G. Smith served as a college administrator for 21 years in planning and evaluation, institutional research and student affairs. Her current research, teaching, and publications have been in the areas of organizational implications of diversity, assessment and evaluation, leadership and change, governance, student affairs, adult development, and the impact of women's colleges and other special purpose institutions.
In addition to numerous articles and papers, she is an author or co-author of:
Smith also served as one of three Principals responsible for the evaluation of the Campus Diversity Initiative for the James Irvine Foundation in collaboration with the Association of American Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C. This five-year project involved working with 28 private colleges and universities in California to develop their capacity to sustain and monitor progress on institutional diversity. That project has resulted in a monograph, a final report, 3 research briefs, and a resource kit for campuses:
In partnership with five other evaluators of national diversity projects, she has been a co-author of:
She also served as part of two U.S. delegations to Ford Foundation sponsored trinational conferences (India, South Africa, U.S.) on campus diversity in higher education that have taken place in South Africa and the United States for which she wrote a paper on issues of evaluation.
Teaching Interests
- Politics and Governance of Higher Education
- College Student Experience
- Organizational Implications of Diversity in Higher Education
- Organizational Change, Organizational Learning, and Assessment
- Adult Development
Research Interests
- Organizational change and diversity in higher education
- Diversifying the faculty
- The role of special purpose institutions
- Organizational learning and evaluation
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