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Faculty Friday Spotlight: October 2022
Activism and Healing through Poetry Agnes Scott College’s mission of “thinking deeply, living honorably, and engaging with the social and intellectual challenges of our times” is exemplified by the work done by our faculty daily. The goals of academia are not stagnant antiquity but rather an active and responsive living…
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Loretta J. Ross ’07 Named 2022 MacArthur Fellow
Human rights advocate and activist Loretta J. Ross ’07 has been named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in the Class of 2022. The $800,000, no-strings-attached award–more commonly known as the “Genius Grant”–honors individuals for their extraordinary efforts to improve the world. Ross is the second alum to be given the prestigious…
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Agnes Scott Set to Hold Third Annual Women’s Global Leadership Conference
This year’s conference is titled Leading Inclusively: Transformative Change Across the Globe DECATUR, Ga. – Agnes Scott will hold its third annual Global Leadership Conference Thursday, October 13, on the college’s campus in Decatur, Georgia. This year’s topic, “Leading Inclusively: Transformative Change Across the Globe” will showcase Agnes Scott’s inclusive…
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Agnes Scott College Receives 2022 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity Magazine
DECATUR, Ga. — For the second year in a row, Agnes Scott received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. As a recipient of the annual HEED Award — a national honor recognizing U.S. colleges…
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Agnes Scott College Appoints Chicora Martin Vice President for Student Affairs
DECATUR, Ga. – Agnes Scott College yesterday announced the appointment of Dr. Chicora Martin as the college’s vice president for student affairs and dean of students, effective November 1. Dr. Martin comes to Agnes Scott after seven years at Mills College in Oakland, California, where they served as vice president…
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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE RANKED #1 MOST INNOVATIVE FOR THE FIFTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR
First-year experiences, undergraduate teaching, social mobility and study-abroad opportunities are among other top rankings highlighted in the 2022-2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. September 12, 2022 (Decatur, Georgia) – For an unprecedented fifth year in a row, Agnes Scott College has been recognized as the nation’s #1…
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Faculty Friday Spotlight: September 2022
Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging by Professor Nicole Stamant was recently published by Routledge. Dr. Stamant’s work primarily focuses on marginalized populations and historically marginalized forms of literature: life writing studies, ethnic American literature and the works of literature of gender and sexual minorities. “In my scholarship, I write…
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Agnes Scott Ranked First in Town-Gown Relations by The Princeton Review
Agnes Scott College was again named to The Princeton Review’s Best 388 College rankings for 2023. Agnes Scott stayed in the Best Southeastern, Best Value and Most Green colleges lists, but saw its most dramatic climb in individual rankings on the Town-Gown Relations are Great rankings. The college’s relationship with…
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Faculty Friday Spotlight: August 2022
Adding to the Booklist Professor of classics and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Megan O. Drinkwater’s work on Ovid’s “Heroides” will be published by the University of Wisconsin Press at the end of summer 2022. Drinkwater illustrates how Ovid used innovations of literary form to articulate an…
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WABE: College Leadership Joins ‘A Closer Look with Rose Scott’ to Discuss Mellon Grant
On Friday, July 22, President Leocadia Zak and Dr. Yves-Rose Porcena, vice president for equity and inclusion, joined “A Closer Look with Rose Scott” on Atlanta’s National Public Radio (NRP) station WABE 90.1 to elevate Agnes Scott College’s plans for its recent Mellon Foundation grant. The college will use the…
