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Spelman
College
Atlanta,
Georgia
Spelman College is
a four-year liberal arts women's college located in Atlanta, Georgia.
The college is part of the Atlanta University Center academic
consortium in Atlanta. Spelman holds the distinction as America's
oldest historically black college for women.
Spelman has amassed
an endowment fund of over $291 million, and is ranked currently
at 75 in the 2008 U.S. News and World Report ranking of all U.S.
liberal arts colleges. The 2008 U.S. News and World Report also
ranked Spelman as the number one Historically Black Colleges and/or
Universities.
Spelman was established
on April 11, 1881 (1881-04-11) in the basement of Friendship Baptist
Church in Atlanta, Georgia, by two Massachusetts teachers from
the Oread Institute: Harriet E. Giles and Sophia B. Packard. The
school was originally named Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary and
then in 1884, Spelman Seminary after Laura Spelman, an Oread student
and wife of John D. Rockefeller who helped to fund the school.
Spelman is
part of the largest consortium of historically Black institutions
of higher learning in the world. Its four partner institutions
include Clark Atlanta University, the Interdenominational Theological
Center, Morehouse College and Morehouse School of Medicine. Spelman
shares cross-registration with its undergraduate partners. They
also share the Robert W. Woodruff Library.
www.spelman.edu
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