Recent News
Applications Now Open for C.A.M.P. at The Woods
For the third consecutive year, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) will hold C.A.M.P. at The Woods from June 9 -13, 2025. C.A.M.P., Challenging Ambitions and Maximizing Potential, continues to be made possible by a grant from Lily Endowment Inc., t...
Feb 11, 2025, 2:45pm EST
SMWC 10th Woods Giving Day a Success
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) held the 10th Woods Giving Day - WGD-X- on Tuesday, February 4, in the Woods Student Center in the Rooney Center. The effort brought 1,266 donors, raising $1,014,407, the most ever for Woods Giving Day. The day wa...
Feb 6, 2025, 3:21pm EST
Tenth Woods Giving Day is set for February 4
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) has announced that Woods Giving Day (WGD) will be on Tuesday, February 4. WGD is the College's single largest fundraising event and has raised more than $1.7 million in the past nine years, and in 2023, the day re...
Jan 17, 2025, 8:31am EST
Ph.D. Student Selected as First Fulbright Specialist Award Recipient for SMWC
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) is pleased to announce that Ph.D. in Global Leadership student Detra Mills, JD, MBA, has been honored as a 2024 Fulbright Specialist Program award recipient. Each year, the Fulbright Specialist program selects ove...
Dec 3, 2024, 2:03pm EST
SMWC to Host Choral Concert in December
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College's (SMWC) Department of Arts, Letters and Music will present a Christmas Choral concert, "Songs of Mary," on Sunday, December 8 at 3 p.m. in the Church of the Immaculate Conception on the SMWC campus. The concert will fe...
Dec 2, 2024, 8:49am EST
SMWC Faculty Receive PALSave Open Educator Award
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) is proud to have had two faculty members awarded the PALSave Open Educator Award by the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) for the 2023-24 academic year. Kim LaComba, Ph.D., director of the Ph.D. ...
Sep 28, 2024, 8:00am EDT
SMWC Ranks Among America's Best Colleges by U.S. News and World Report
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) has once again been recognized among the top institutions in "America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News & World Report. SMWC is ranked as one of the Best Regional Universities in the Midwest. The 2025 rankings were re...
Sep 26, 2024, 7:47am EDT
Class of 2028 Continues Strong Enrollment Trend at SMWC
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) leadership, faculty and staff welcomed the Class of 2028 with 240 new students to campus, one of the largest classes in history. The incoming class brings an average GPA of 3.27. A beloved tradition, President Br...
Aug 19, 2024, 8:27am EDT
Brennan J. Randolph Named 17th President of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
Brennan J. Randolph, MBA, has been named the 17th president of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC). The College's Board of Trustees unanimously announced his appointment and five-year contract effective today, Friday, August 9, 2024. Alice Sherfick...
Aug 9, 2024, 4:16pm EDT
About Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
About Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College is Indiana’s oldest Catholic college, established in 1840. SMWC is listed among the Best Regional Universities in the Midwest and Best Value Schools in the Midwest by U.S. News & World Report. SMWC was the second institution in the nation to add distance education programming in 1973.
