Gordon-Zeto Center for Global Education

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).

About Summer Study Abroad Programs

IES Abroad - Spelman College 3-Week Summer Program

Nantes, France/Accra, Ghana | May 12 - June 6, 2025
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery: History and Legacy

This program, collaboratively designed by IES Abroad and Spelman College, focuses on perspectives in Europe, Africa (Ghana), and the Americas. The primary aim of this multilocation program is to provide students with an understanding of slavery as a global system, more specifically in the context of the Atlantic world from the 15th to the mid-19th century. Incorporating classroom instruction and educational excursions in both France and Ghana, we aim to place the teaching of slave trade and slavery within the context of history and use a global lens, to understand its impact on contemporary societies.

• This course is a history major, general, or humanities general education elective.
• Open to first-year students who might have taken ADW 111 and ADW 112 by May 2025. 

• Dr. Al-Yasha Williams
• Dr. Kathleen Phillips Lewis

Program Details

• A non-refundable deposit of $200 will secure your place in the program.
• Applicants will be accepted on a rolling basis.
• The subsidized cost of the program is $3,300 plus airfare, visa fee, and vaccination fee.
• Meals are included in the program cost.
• Pell Grant holders may also apply for a Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship in the second round (March 2025) to assist with the program's cost.
• The full payment is due by April 30, 2025.
• Payments can be made in one payment or installments.
• Seniors graduating in May 2025 cannot apply.
• Application Deadline: On a rolling basis.
• Selected applicants will be notified on a first-come, first-serve basis.

The due date for the $900 deposit: Priority will be given to the deposit received by November 8, 2024. The due date for the total program fee is April 30, 2025.

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We Are Here To Help

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.