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1881

Founded as Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary by Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles

School opens April 11 in basement of Friendship Baptist Church, the Rev. Frank Quarles, pastor

1882

Two more teachers commissioned by the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society join Packard and Giles in "basement school"

Packard and Giles introduced to John D. Rockefeller who pledges $250 to the school

1883

Moved to present site occupying nine acres and five frame buildings

"Model School" to train student-teachers opens

1884

Name changes to Spelman Seminary in honor of Mrs. Laura Spelman Rockefeller and her parents Harvey Buel and Lucy Henry Spelman, longtime activists in the antislavery movement.

1995

Spelman is one of six institutions designated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a Model Institution for Excellence in undergraduate science and math education

1996

Official opening of the Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby Academic Center and the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

The successful capital campaign brings Spelman's endowment to $141 million, the largest of any historically black college or university

Dr. Cole announces her resignation as president of Spelman College

1997

Audrey Forbes Manley (class of '55) becomes first alumna elected President of the College

Death of Albert E. Manley

1998

Spelman awarded a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa

Becomes a provisional member of NCAA Division II in basketball, volleyball, cross-country, tennis, and track and field

Spelman ranked No. 2 on the fifth annual list of Top Ten Activist Schools by Mother Jones Magazine

1999

Spelman ranked No. 1 by Black Enterprise as best environment for Black collegians

Two Spelman seniors receive Fulbright Post-Baccalaureate Fellowships for research study abroad

2000

Spelman ranked No. 2 by the Association of Medical Colleges in placing African-American students in medical school

Women of Excellence Leadership Series (WEL) is inaugurated. The program is designed to provide advanced-level leadership and training to Spelman women

2001

Division of Media and Information Technology established

Professor Ayoka Chenzira, internationally noted filmmaker and visual artist, is the first recipient of the William and Camille Cosby Endowed Professorship in the Fine Arts.

Spelman's Independent Scholars Program (SIS) established to conduct extensive interviews with African-American elders in an effort to capture and preserve their stories about life in the past century

Spelman hosts 25th International Association of Philosophy and Literature Conference. The event marked the first time a historically Black college hosted the conference

Spelman signs partnership agreement with the University of Delaware to enrich curricular and cultural offerings in the arts at both institutions

Spelman's Habitat for Humanity Chapter completes its first year of operation. More than 125 students, faculty and staff were actively involved in the chapter's programs and activities

Spelman celebrates 75th anniversary of the Spelman-Morehouse Christmas Carol Concert

2002

Albro Falconer Manley Science Center dedicated

The Lilly Foundation awards Spelman a $2 million grant to establish the Sisters Center for WISDOM, Women in Spiritual Discernment of Ministry

Spelman and all the schools in the Atlanta University Center open the University Community Academy Charter School in historic West End

Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon (C'70), cultural historian and founder of legendary a cappella group, Sweet Honey in the Rock, named 2002 Cosby Professor in the Fine Arts and Dr. Shelia Walker, nationally known anthropologist and scholar named 2002 Cosby Professor in the Humanities

Dr. Audrey Forbes Manley retires, named president emerita

Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum appointed ninth president of Spelman College

2003

Spelman establishes Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement (LEADS)

Spelman named in the top 100 Best Liberal Arts Colleges by U.S. News and World Report

Spelman receives $4.5 million NASA grant to enhance its Women in Science and Engineering Scholars Program

Dr. Renita J. Weems, prominent author, Biblical scholar, and ordained minister, named 2003 Cosby Professor in the Humanities and Dr. William J. Darity Jr., distinguished scholar and economist, named 2003 Cosby Professor in the Social Sciences

Spelman named one of six institutions to receive $4.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities to eliminate health disparities among racial and ethnic minority groups

2004

Sisters Center for WISDOM (Women in Spiritual Discernment of Ministry) launched

Spelman's Independent Scholars Program (SIS) partners with AARP (formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons) and The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights on "Voices of Civil Rights," a project designed to collect and preserve firsthand accounts of the Civil Rights Movement

Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement sponsors first national Leadership Symposium & Conference for Women of Color, "It's Our Turn"

Packard Hall renovation wins an Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award of Excellence for 2004

Atlanta University Center Inc. restructured as the Atlanta University Center Consortium.