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Global Experience

Dear Spelman Study Abroad Scholars:

Your global experience does not end when you return home. The knowledge, skills, and perspectives you gained abroad are valuable assets for your future career and academic goals. To help you articulate and leverage those experiences, the Gordon-Zeto Center for Global Education has partnered with DA Global Access Network to offer Global EDGE, a six-week, fully asynchronous certificate program exclusively for Spelman study abroad scholars.
Global EDGE will help you:

  • Identify and articulate the skills gained through your global experience.
  • Connect your study abroad experience to career readiness.
  • Develop a Leadership Action Plan.
  • Earn a DA Global-issued, LinkedIn-shareable certificate.

This opportunity is open to the first 100 eligible Spelman study abroad scholars from semester programs, summer programs, J-Term, two-week programs, faculty-led programs, and other global experiences completed.

Program Fee: $250
Spelman Scholarship Support: $125
Your Cost: $125

To learn more and register, visit: Global Edge. We encourage you to take this next step in making your global experience work for your future. Questions? Please contact Dr. Karen Clay at kclay2@spelman.edu in the Gordon-Zeto Center for Global Education.

Apply Today for Global EDGE,

Global Edge

About the Center

Driven and inspired by Spelman College’s mission statement, the Gordon-Zeto Center for Global Education reaffirms the College’s commitment to engage Spelman’s students with “many cultures of the world” and to widen their socio-economic and political horizons in an increasingly complex and interdependent global society.

In order to achieve global competence that students need to succeed as future professionals and global leaders, the Center serves as the institutional focal point to cohere, enhance and lead the College’s global strategic initiatives embodied in the Spelman College Strategic Plan.

The Center also leads the institutionalization of the recently concluded and successful Spelman's first Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP): Spelman Going Global! which was the center-piece of the reaffirmation of the College’s accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges & Schools (SACSCOC).

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We Are Here To Help

Dimeji Togunde | Spelman CollegeMeet Our Vice Provost for Global Education and Professor of International Studies: Dr. ‘Dimeji Togunde.

Dr. ‘Dimeji Togunde's roles include providing leadership for the design and implementation of the College’s Strategic Planning on campus internationalization (2024-2029) and the institutionalization of the recently concluded and successful Spelman's first Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP 2016), also known as Spelman Going Global!, which was the centerpiece of the College’s reaffirmation of accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACSCOC) from 2011 - 2016. In his capacity as the College’s chief international officer since 2011, Dr. Togunde provides guidance and direction for all of the College’s global initiatives. View Dr. ‘Dimeji Togunde's profile.

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Powerful Core Values

Transforming the College's Mission Into Action

Established through an anonymous endowment gift of $17 million, the Gordon-Zeto Center is led by ‘Dimeji Togunde, Ph.D, vice provost for Global Education and professor of international studies, to translate the College’s comprehensive and integrated internationalization initiatives into action.

As an institutional space to expand Spelman’s long history of commitment to international education, the Center provides leadership for the College’s efforts to internationalize the Campus through curricular and co-curricular program enhancement, increased recruitment of international students and visiting scholars, promotion of study abroad and faculty/staff-led study travel programs for students; international service learning; and support for faculty global engagement.

Forging Meaningful Collaborations Across Disciplines

The Center serves as a catalyst for forging fruitful collaborations and synergistic relationships among Spelman’s traditional academic departments, interdisciplinary studies programs, faculty committees, offices of enrollment management, undergraduate studies, college relations, institutional advancement, and student affairs to expand students’ conceptualization of the global community and their interactions with the local. Moreover, through the cross-fertilization of ideas among diverse constituencies, the Center aims to ensure that students see the interconnectedness between domestic and global diversity.

Providing the Spelman Community With Global Opportunities

The Gordon-Zeto Center comprises seven constituent parts including:

All the Gordon-Zeto programs are intentionally designed to provide a learning environment that engages students in comparative analysis of social systems that deepens their understanding of and appreciation for intercultural variation and their ability to show openness to cultural differences.

The Gordon-Zeto Center provides leadership for assessing all global initiatives and streamlining all global travel experiences.  It also serves as a clearing house for building international partnerships with overseas institutions in a way that can achieve the realization of the learning outcomes of Spelman’s Going Global initiative.