Faculty
Day in and day out, Spelman
faculty have a significant
impact on our mission to educate our students to lead and serve
their communities and the world. As primary
guides for students, our professors need
opportunities that enable them to nurture
thoughtful, skilled, and responsible leaders
who are able to communicate in and navigate
through changing geopolitical realities.
Spelman’s iconic representative is the
Millennial professor. To this end, we are
strengthening our Faculty Development
Program to be comprehensive—recruiting
and retaining talented individuals who pursue
creative, rigorous scholarship and course
development within their disciplines and in
multidisciplinary ventures. These professors
will also lead the way in internationalizing the
curriculum. Spelman’s Center for Teaching
and Learning will serve as a catalyst for
this kind of innovative scholarship, for
tailoring it to our young women of color, and
for promoting synergies among teaching,
research, and service. Additionally, it will
enhance our professors’ development,
particularly in digital pedagogy, and assist
their integration of leading-edge technology
into instruction and research.
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Our Millennial professors will also connect
students with opportunities for applied
research and career-related internships.
A College-wide program, this initiative
will establish shared learning outcomes
across all majors and departments as well
as specific outcomes tied to departments,
majors, and minors. Moreover, they will help
students integrate this hands-on experience
with coursework and practical skills via a
more comprehensive model of advising. The
transformative experience for faculty also
extends to participation in shared governance,
such as the institution of self- and peer-
evaluation systems on teaching effectiveness
and expanding peer recognition of excellence
in teaching. Our faculty GOALS are:
- Global engagement, from initiatives to
internationalize the curriculum to
participation in conferences worldwide
- Ongoing professional development—
intellectual, pedagogical,
and technological
- Advising students to prepare not only
for careers but for lives of success,
leadership, and service
- Leadership through participation in
shared governance
- Service learning integrated across
the curriculum
