ACS Working Group: Cornerstone First Year Experiences

Wednesdays, July 22, 2026 to August 5, 2026
10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT / 9:00 am – 10:00 am CDT (Virtual)
Please register below.

This three-part virtual working group series is designed for faculty, staff, and administrators interested in exploring the Teagle Foundation’s Cornerstone model and its potential for their campus. Facilitated by Michelle Hite of Spelman College, the sessions will combine conversation among participants with insights from colleagues who have experience developing and implementing Cornerstone programs. The series will explore how shared texts can strengthen the first-year experience, foster meaningful dialogue across difference, and deepen student engagement with the humanities. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from peers, examine a range of campus approaches, and consider possibilities for their own institutional context.

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Michelle S. Hite, Ph.D., has been a faculty member at Spelman College since 2004. She is an associate professor in the Department of Literature, Media and Writing; Director of the Ethel Waddell Githii Honors Program; Director of International Fellowships and Scholarships; and President of the Toni Morrison Society. She also directs Spelman’s First-Year Experience (FYE), where she has developed a curriculum centered on the Habits of Mind for Intellectual Sovereignty, integrating shared sisterhood journals and student-led roundtables as extensions of that work to cultivate point of view, intellectual community, and the disciplined practices of listening and exchange.

Please register below. Contact workshops@acsouth.edu with questions.

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