Daryl G. Smith is Professor of Education and Psychology at the Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California. She received her BS in mathematics from Cornell University and a Master’s degree in Student Personnel and Counseling at Stanford University. In 1968, Dr. Smith moved to The Claremont Colleges Consortium as Pomona College’s  Assistant Dean of Students.  She later became Dean of Students at Scripps College, earned a Ph.D.in psychology and higher education from The Claremont Graduate School, and joined the faculties of Scripps and The Claremont Graduate School as an assistant professor of psychology. In 1983, Dr. Smith was appointed Vice President for Planning and Research and Associate Professor at Scripps. She became a full-time faculty member in psychology and higher education at The Claremont Graduate School (later Claremont Graduate University) in 1986.

Dr. Smith’s research interests center on diversity in higher education, evaluation and organizational change, college governance issues, women in academe, women’s colleges, institutional research, student affairs, and classroom teaching. These areas of expertise have been presented in numerous venues as keynote, invited, and plenary addresses.Dr. Smith served as an elected member of the Board of the American Association of Higher Education and has also served as Chair of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Higher Education on the Board of Directors of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) , as Consulting Editor to the ASHE-ERIC Report Series and Series Editor for four of the ASHE Readers in Higher Education, on the Editorial Board of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NAPA) Monograph Series, and the Editorial Board of the NASPS Journal.

In 1996, Dr. Smith earned the NASPA Region VI Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession and in 1995, the ASHE Distinguished Service Award.  Previously, she won the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award from the Association of Professors in Higher Education.