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Dr. Patricia Smith, professor emeritus of industrial/organizational psychology, is applauded by Dr. Bill Balzer, dean of Continuing and Extended Education, following the announcement of her $1 million gift to BGSU.

Retired professor pledges $1 million to BGSU

Dr. Jennifer Gillespie, psychology, often lunches with Dr. Patricia Smith, whom she considers a wise, witty and wonderful mentor. Still, Gillespie didn’t know just how generous the professor emeritus of industrial/
organizational psychology could be until May 5. That was the day Smith announced plans to give $1 million to the University.

Smith and her late husband, Dr. Olin Smith, joined the psychology faculty as full professors in 1966. She is pledging a $1 million charitable trust gift that will support two programs. The announcement was made at the spring tea for retired faculty and staff, but she and her husband had decided to make such a gift many years ago to provide endowed support for future generations of BGSU faculty and students.

A portion of the charitable trust will go to the Olin and Patricia Smith Piano Accompaniment Fund to support student accompanists in the College of Musical Arts. The remainder of the gift is designated for the Patricia and Olin Smith Faculty Development Fund to support faculty in the industrial/organizational psychology program.

Smith is internationally known in industrial/organizational psychology as the developer of the Job Descriptive Index, a measure of job satisfaction that is used throughout the world. Among her many other contributions to the field are the creation of the Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales, a method of employee evaluation, and research into the effects of monotony and boredom in the workplace.

In 1984, she received the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, a division of the American Psychological Association.

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