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New Student Orientation for the 2021-2022 academic year will be held in-person Thursday, Aug. 12 through Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021.
The five-day event will introduce all new students, including transfer, international, domestic exchange and Pauline E. Drake scholars, to the Spelman community through sessions on academic advisement, course registration and campus activities designed to develop sisterhood, supportive networks, and school pride.
Check-in for new first-year students begins Tuesday, Aug. 10. Check-in for transfer and PED scholars, and commuter students will take place Wednesday, Aug. 11 and Thursday, Aug. 12, respectively. Parent and family orientation will be held on Thursday, Aug. 12.
As the College
looks forward to welcoming students to campus in the coming weeks, NSO organizers are committed to ensuring the health and safety of the campus community. All individuals on campus for NSO are required to wear a mask for all indoor and outdoor activities.
A complete list of the 2021 NSO activities can be found on Spelman.edu.
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The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library has received a gift of artwork valued at $370,000 from internationally renowned artist, Steve R. Allen.
The gift is the first of Allen’s multi-million-dollar gifting program for historically Black colleges and universities designed to highlight the financial value of Black art in American culture, and demand equity amongst Black people in the business of art.
Allen served as the official artist for eight Olympic Games and has artwork featured in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The gift includes six limited-edition giclée of former
President Barack Obama and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; "Battle of New Orleans," created for the 40th Bayou Classic; and "The Legend," commemorating the 25th anniversary of Hank Aaron’s 715th record-breaking home run. Two original portraits, "Dr. Richard Long" and "Patrice Emery Lumumba," which have been on loan to Woodruff Library since 2019, are also part of the gift.
"Allen’s work complements the vision of the Library’s Knowledge and
Arts Initiative, designed to promote student and faculty engagement within library learning spaces and in the classroom," said Loretta Parham, Woodruff Library CEO and director. "This collection will become a curriculum resource for the object-based learning that is made possible by the Library’s Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums Program."
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Senior Selected as HistoryMakers Student Brand Ambassador
The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive has chosen Jasmin Woodruff, C’2022, as one of its 2021-2022 Student Brand Ambassadors.
The program, which began in 2020 with two ambassadors, has 24 ambassadors in the 2021-2022 cohort representing 17 colleges and universities, including Spelman, Clark Atlanta University and Emory University.
Supported in part by a grant from Bank of America, Student Brand Ambassadors serve as the official representatives for The HistoryMakers Digital Archive on their respective campuses. They are tasked with building digital archive brand awareness and mounting a campus-wide 2022 Black History Month Digital Archive Contest.
A comparative women’s studies, women’s health major, Woodruff is honored to represent HistoryMakers at Spelman.
"Understanding history and where we have come from is integral," she said. "Never forget that -- to know where we are going as a people -- it is crucial to know the pathway our ancestors traveled to bring us to where we are today."
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Alumna Receives Distinguished Sociology Book Award Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Ph.D., C’96, recently received the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the American Sociological Association. The award is given to the single best sociology book published in the three preceding calendar years.
Dr. Watkins-Hayes is the Jean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy and incoming associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Michigan. She is also a professor of sociology and holds a diversity and social transformation professorship at the University.
Dr. Watkins-Hayes received the award for her book, "Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality." The book, which has received over seven awards and recognitions from numerous organizations, maps the success of the HIV/AIDS community over the last 40 years and describes how the HIV/AIDS epidemic can guide us through today’s public health crises.
"It is the honor of a lifetime to receive this award," said Dr. Watkins-Hayes in previous interviews. "It is important to understand the work that remains—confronting disparities, shoring up the resources needed to end the epidemic and never forgetting those who we lost."
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Students and employees, regardless of vaccination status, must wear face masks in all indoor spaces (apart from their personal residential dorm room, singular office) and when attending large or crowded gatherings.
Face shields do NOT replace mask-wearing. Students and employees who choose to wear a face shield must also wear a mask that covers the mouth and nose.
A complete list of the AUCC guidelines can be found on aucenter.edu.
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Spelman College is known for educating global change agents, who are leaders in the classroom, in the community and in their careers. If you have an idea for a news story about Spelman faculty, staff, students or alumnae, we would love to hear about it. Submit your story ideas
to spelmanconnection@spelman.edu. Check out the submission guidelines for the weekly e-newsletter.
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