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Ambassador Susan E. Rice to Speak at Spelman Commencement Susan E. Rice, Ph.D., the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, will receive an honorary degree and serve as the keynote speaker for Spelman College’s commencement exercises, on May 16, at the Georgia World Congress Center at 3 p.m. Marian Wright Edelman, C’60, founder and president [...]

Festive Fun Abounds During Spelman’s 129th Founders Day

Spelman College celebrated its 129th anniversary with a flurry of fanfare and festivities for Founders Day. From tributes and convocations to performances and pageants, the entire Spelman community was involved in nearly two weeks of activities recognizing the College’s beginnings. The crowning event of Founders Day was a convocation held on April 8 in Sisters [...]

Spelman in Bloom

From cherry blossom trees hanging like floral chandeliers to tulips trumpeting the new season’s arrival, not much can compare to the beauty of Spelman in its spring bloom. All year, the College’s grounds-keeping staff work diligently on campus beautification, and the results are bursts of color that only nature can create. Every March, Spelman gets [...]

Spelman Embraces Global Community With International Spring Events

The Spelman community kicked off spring with a host of international events in celebration of various cultures. Held March 22 – April 1, the International Film Festival, West Indies International Festival, and “The International Vagina Monologues” showcased Spelman’s commitment to global citizenship. Hosted by the department of world languages and literature, the weeklong International Film Festival [...]

Dynamic Speakers to Address Civility at the Leadership and Women of Color Conference

In February at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama addressed the “erosion of civility” and the need to find our way back to it.  On May 12 and 13, the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement at Spelman College will open a dialogue to begin that journey at its Sixth Annual Leadership and Women [...]

With ‘A Legacy of Change,’ Green Adds to His Spelman Credits

For more than 22 years, Kenneth Green has lent his creative talent to Spelman College as a faculty member of the department of drama and dance. On April 8, 2010, in Sisters Chapel he’ll add to an impressive and lengthy list of credits by producing “A Legacy of Change,” the Founders Day Convocation commemorating the [...]

Realizing the Vision

On Feb. 26, 2010, President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order reauthorizing the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges. I, one of several members of the newly appointed White House Advisory Board on HBCUs, was standing on stage with President Obama to witness the signing.  This thrilling moment was made even more special because [...]

10 Alumnae to Give $100,000 to the Women’s Center

When Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D., C’66, director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center at Spelman, spoke in February 2007 to a class taught by her former student, she had no idea her words would lead to a $100,000 gift to Spelman from 10 recent alumnae. That former student, Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Ph.D., C’96, decided to launch [...]

Edelman, C'60, Recounts Days of the Atlanta Student Movement

Global leader, crusader, children’s rights advocate and author Marian Wright Edelman, C’60, offered stirring words of wisdom and inspiration as keynote speaker during a special lecture and panel discussion commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Atlanta Student Movement. During her address, Edelman told a audience of students, faculty and staff that she was in the [...]

Reel Women Showcase Features Euzhan Palcy and Edgy Student Films

An insightful conversation with a barrier-breaking Hollywood film director and screenings of cutting-edge student movies were the focus of the Sixth Annual Reel Women Showcase, hosted on April 6-7 by the Women’s Center’s Digital Moving Image Salon at Spelman College. The event began with “An Evening with Euzhan Palcy,” featuring the first Black woman to [...]

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