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Students are all women and predominantly African-American. [3] Approximately 30% come from Georgia, 69% from the rest of the United States, and 1% are international. 85% of Spelman students receive financial aid, the average financial package for a first year student adds up to $22,000. [59]
Student Adviser and Dean of Women at Spelman College Ruth A. Davis: 1966 24th Director General of the United States Foreign Service; director, Foreign Service Institute and two-time recipient of the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service: Phire Dawson: 2008 "Barker's Beauty" on The Price Is Right: Mattiwilda Dobbs: 1937
The consortium structure allows for students to cross-register at the other institutions in order to attain a broader collegiate experience. They also share the Robert W. Woodruff Library, a dual degree engineering program, and career planning and placement services and the AUC Data Science Initiative.
A billionaire couple is giving $100 million to Atlanta’s Spelman College, which the women’s school says is the largest-ever single donation to a historically Black college or university.
On May 17, 2013, two days before Spelman's graduation ceremony, Taronda Spencer fell ill while at a Spelman function. [4] Later that night, she suffered a massive heart attack and died at 54. [ 4 ] In 2014, after her death, the Society of Georgia Archivists established the Taronda Spencer Award, "to honor her work in encouraging students at ...
Helene Gayle was born in Buffalo, New York, to Jacob Astor Gayle, [1] a small-business owner, and Marietta Spiller Dabney Gayle, [1] a social worker. She attended Court Street Elementary School and Lancaster Middle School in Lancaster, New York, and in Buffalo, graduated with honors from Woodlawn Junior High School and Bennett High School (Class of 1972). [1]
Gwendolyn Robinson was inspired to get involved in the civil rights movement by two of her professors, Staughton Lynd and Esta Seaton. She began volunteering at the nearby Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) headquarters alongside SNCC chair John Lewis, SNCC executive secretary James Forman, and fellow Spelman student Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson.
This course focuses on the nature and politics of language, composition, media, and communication. Students learn the basics of inquiry for the purposes of practicing argumentation. This course has a special emphasis on interdisciplinary knowledge-making and the politics of research production in the 21st century.