Spelman College Announces New Strategic Plan for Academic Excellence and Growth

Spelman College, a historically Black women’s college in Atlanta, Georgia, has recently announced a new strategic plan that aims to enhance all sectors of the college and foster a commitment to continuous strategic growth, while maintaining its primary commitment to educating women of African descent. The plan, “Elevat-ED: Empowering Excellence, Inspiring Change,” consists of two pillars, each with their own subset of individual goals. Pillar 1, Empowering Excellence, focuses on improving academic curricula and research capabilities, promoting faculty success, increasing tuition affordability, enhancing campus infrastructure and equipment, and creating policies to foster employee satisfaction. Pillar 2, Inspiring Change, centers around elevating the college’s external influence on transformational change, local economic growth, and global partners. The college has plans to collaborate with the Atlanta University Consortium on community engagement projects and explore establishing educational assets in Africa and beyond. In a message to the Spelman community, President Helene Gayle wrote,  “Spelman has become a more complex institution, outgrowing our traditional boundaries and processes. It calls us to consider what should be next to leverage the college’s mission and strengthen its influence on matters of great importance, consistent with democratic ideals and our commitment to social justice and the elimination of inequities...