Winners Take All in 128th Homecoming
October 29, 2009 by spelmancollege
Filed under November 2009, Past Around Campus
Spelman College celebrated its 128th homecoming October 18-25. The Morehouse Maroon Tigers’ 24-20 victory over the Clark Atlanta University Panthers proved the “Winner Takes All” homecoming theme. The week’s activities included a parade, special worship services, and a women-in-television careers panel discussion during the Alumna to Student Convocation, featuring television executives Michelle B. Bailey, C’89, [...]
News Briefs
October 1, 2009 by spelmancollege
Filed under Archives, Departments, October 2009, Past News Briefs
The Coca-Cola Company Gives $7.2 Million to the Atlanta University Center On Sept. 9 The Coca-Cola Company announced it will give $6 million to Spelman College, Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University and the Morehouse School of Medicine, all part of the Atlanta University Center. This support will assist students with scholarship funds. Additionally, the company [...]
Chinese Language Professor Teaches With Technology
October 1, 2009 by spelmancollege
Filed under Departments, October 2009, Past Spotlight
As assistant professor of Chinese in the department of world languages and literature, Zhengbin Richard Lu, Ed.D., firmly believes that American students cannot compete in a global economy if they lack knowledge about other cultures and languages, especially Chinese. “In a global era, all cultures are interconnected,” says Dr. Lu, a native of Shandong, Qingdao, [...]
President Tatum Inspires First-Year Students
October 1, 2009 by spelmancollege
Filed under October 2009, Past Features
During her 2009 Opening Convocation address, President Beverly Daniel Tatum encouraged Spelman students to travel the “Spelman Journey.” Quoting Francis of Assisi, President Tatum advised students to develop a vision for their lives and find ways to achieve their GOALS — through global engagement, opportunities for research and internships, alumnae connections, leadership development and service [...]
Why You Should Vaccinate Against the Flu
October 1, 2009 by spelmancollege
Filed under Departments, October 2009, Past Inside Tips, Spelman ALERT
The H1N1 virus is four times more likely to send African Americans and Hispanics to the hospital than Whites, according to a recent study in Chicago. Health officials say the cause for the difference is probably not genetic, but linked to the fact that these communities suffer disproportionately more from asthma, diabetes, and other chronic [...]
Women’s Center Goes Radical With its Lecture Series
October 1, 2009 by spelmancollege
Filed under Departments, October 2009, Past CENTERgy
Stroll around the Women’s Research & Resource Center, and sage feminist quotes like, “Well-behaved women rarely make history,” by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, help you to know you are in a radical place. And, radical is the theme of the center’s 2009 Toni Cade Bambara Radical Sisterhood Lectures held Sept. 11 through Nov. 6 at the [...]
New Study Abroad Partnerships in China, Brazil and Turkey
October 1, 2009 by spelmancollege
Filed under Departments, October 2009, Past CENTERgy
The Study Abroad and International Exchange program, has received a grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State that will allow Spelman students more options for study abroad opportunities. The award of more than $151,000 provides new summer programs to increase the capacity of international institutions to host American students [...]
Homecoming Worship Services Feature Jackson and Warnock
October 1, 2009 by spelmancollege
Filed under October 2009, Past Features, Sisters Chapel
Homecoming 2009 is upon us. Festivities kickoff Sunday, Oct. 18, with opening worship service at Sisters Chapel featuring Minister Lenora Jackson, director of Student Financial Services, followed by a kickoff jam on the Oval. Other activities include: homecoming convocation; “Alumnae 2 Student Conversation: Alumnae Shaping the Image of Television;” neo-soul concert; Miss Spelman Coronation; and [...]
Title III Funds Comprehensive Writing Program’s Wish List
October 1, 2009 by spelmancollege
Filed under Departments, October 2009, Past Your Gift In Action
Spelman’s Comprehensive Writing Program is benefitting technologically through support allocated from a College-wide five-year Title III grant. Developed for English classes in the early 1990s as a paper-based, first-year writing portfolio project to monitor and maintain a strong commitment to student writing, CWP supports a writing portfolio that is completely digital today. “This gift has [...]
Strengthening the Core: Our Focus on Community Engagement and Development
October 1, 2009 by spelmancollege
Filed under October 2009, Past Inside Voice
As Spelman College unveils its new strategic plan this fall, Strengthening the Core: The Spelman Plan for 2015, one component of the plan takes on new urgency — community engagement and development. Though the random gun violence that took the life of Jasmine Lynn, C’2012, could have happened anywhere, the fact that it happened in [...]
