{"id":20,"date":"2014-10-15T02:05:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T02:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2023-03-02T20:18:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T20:18:46","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dr.
Dr. Ethel Waddell Githii, Courtesy of the Spelman College Archive<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Ethel Waddell Githii Honors Program<\/strong><\/span> exists to encourage an intimate, supportive and engaged intellectual environment for young women who prioritize their academic work and connect their scholarship and intellectual curiosity to the African American liberatory tradition of scholars, artists, inventors, healers, scientists, public intellectuals and political actors.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Program is designed to be interdisciplinary in order to acknowledge and support the diverse scholarly\/creative aims of a community of highly academically motivated students.\u00a0 Honors Program provides a rich array of venues\u2014reading programs, lecture series, cultural events on and beyond the campus\u2014 encouraging young scholars to demonstrate intellectual leadership as a habit of mind and a quality of the ethical citizen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Students form lifelong friendships and partnerships as they read, write, share their questions, curiosities, and discoveries, and engage in exploratory discourse arising from complex social, environmental, philosophical, and political challenges both local and global.<\/span><\/p>\n

All Honors students are encouraged to take advantage of opportunities that include our Domestic Exchange program, which offers the opportunity to study at 29 American campuses, and Study Abroad to diverse locations in Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean. \u00a0The Honors Director and Program Coordinator work collaboratively with key academic departments and programs across the campus to provide students an array of opportunities, which include competitive access to numerous science and research scholarships via institutional partnerships, professional internship opportunities, and the chance to meet numerous visiting scholars and artists routinely visiting the campus, and other AUC campuses.\u00a0 The Honors Program works to prepare students to get to know and work with highly talented faculty mentors committed to introducing students to the challenges, rigors, and excitement of posing and pursuing their own research questions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Honors Program provides some financial support for students who elect to travel and present papers at student and professional conferences in the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n

All Honors students have the opportunity to take their research to a Senior Thesis project, or equivalent advanced project, in any one of the specializations offered in the curriculum. \u00a0Dual Degree Engineering students are encouraged to engage in an early program planning process intended to deliver a liberal arts engagement for her, despite the brevity of her three-year stint at Spelman College (and early departure to her 2-year completion at university).<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ethel Waddell Githii Honors Program exists to encourage an intimate, supportive and engaged intellectual environment for young women who prioritize their academic work and connect their scholarship and intellectual curiosity to the African American liberatory tradition of scholars, artists, inventors, healers, scientists, public intellectuals and political actors. The Program is designed to be interdisciplinary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":563,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"\nabout spelman college honors program<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ethel Waddell Githii Honors Program exists to encourage an intimate, supportive and engaged intellectual environment for young women who prioritize their academic work and connect their scholarship and intellectual curiosity to the African American liberatory tradition of scholars, artists, inventors, healers, scientists, public intellectuals and political actors.\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"about spelman college honors program\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Ethel Waddell Githii Honors Program exists to encourage an intimate, supportive and engaged intellectual environment for young women who prioritize their academic work and connect their scholarship and intellectual curiosity to the African American liberatory tradition of scholars, artists, inventors, healers, scientists, public intellectuals and political actors.\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Spelman College\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-02T20:18:46+00:00\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2015\/01\/EWGlogo.jpg\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1140\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"342\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/\",\"name\":\"about spelman college honors program\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2015\/01\/EWGlogo.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-10-15T02:05:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-02T20:18:46+00:00\",\"description\":\"The Ethel Waddell Githii Honors Program exists to encourage an intimate, supportive and engaged intellectual environment for young women who prioritize their academic work and connect their scholarship and intellectual curiosity to the African American liberatory tradition of scholars, artists, inventors, healers, scientists, public intellectuals and political actors.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2015\/01\/EWGlogo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2015\/01\/EWGlogo.jpg\",\"width\":1140,\"height\":342},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"About\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/\",\"name\":\"Spelman College\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"about spelman college honors program","description":"The Ethel Waddell Githii Honors Program exists to encourage an intimate, supportive and engaged intellectual environment for young women who prioritize their academic work and connect their scholarship and intellectual curiosity to the African American liberatory tradition of scholars, artists, inventors, healers, scientists, public intellectuals and political actors.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"about spelman college honors program","og_description":"The Ethel Waddell Githii Honors Program exists to encourage an intimate, supportive and engaged intellectual environment for young women who prioritize their academic work and connect their scholarship and intellectual curiosity to the African American liberatory tradition of scholars, artists, inventors, healers, scientists, public intellectuals and political actors.","og_url":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/","og_site_name":"Spelman College","article_modified_time":"2023-03-02T20:18:46+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1140,"height":342,"url":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2015\/01\/EWGlogo.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/","url":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/","name":"about spelman college honors program","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2015\/01\/EWGlogo.jpg","datePublished":"2014-10-15T02:05:40+00:00","dateModified":"2023-03-02T20:18:46+00:00","description":"The Ethel Waddell Githii Honors Program exists to encourage an intimate, supportive and engaged intellectual environment for young women who prioritize their academic work and connect their scholarship and intellectual curiosity to the African American liberatory tradition of scholars, artists, inventors, healers, scientists, public intellectuals and political actors.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2015\/01\/EWGlogo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2015\/01\/EWGlogo.jpg","width":1140,"height":342},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/about\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"About"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/#website","url":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/","name":"Spelman College","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5j5Ep-k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.spelman.edu\/honorsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}