Rapid Response: Building a bridge over troubled waters, with Spelman College president Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

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🗓️ 18 July 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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How to keep students learning – and building their vital lifelong community bonds – in the middle of a pandemic? This is the question for Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, president of Spelman College. Late in July, Dr. Campbell announced Spelman's plan for the upcoming academic year – with 100% online classes (and lower fees). Meanwhile, as the head of a leading HBCU, based in the protest hotbed of Atlanta, she's also been grappling with social unrest and calls for change. Spelman is taking this moment to experiment with how best to support virtual learning and community-building — combining emergent innovations and best-of-class design thinking — as they continue to push for equity in higher education.

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0:00.0	Hey listeners, it's Bob as any entrepreneur knows building a business from scratch is
0:06.4	no easy task and it's even harder in times of economic uncertainty.
0:11.4	So what do you do?
0:13.4	How do you find ways to grow your business or even just keep it afloat when financial
0:17.4	conditions are flailing?
0:19.6	Such an important question and that's why Reid Hoffman and I wanted to host a Master's
0:24.3	of Scale strategy session about this very topic.
0:27.8	And we've invited our friend Sally Crotchek to join us and share her perspective too.
0:32.6	Sally is the CEO and co-founder of Elevest and one of the brightest minds in business
0:38.4	with some serious experience leading teams through economic turbulence.
0:43.2	On Monday, May 8th, Sally Reid and I will be tackling some of your toughest questions
0:49.2	and sharing our best advice on how to rebound when the economy is down.
0:53.9	So take a moment right now, go to master's of scale.com slash strategy session to register.
1:01.2	This virtual live event is completely free and you won't want to miss it.
1:05.5	Again, that's master's of scale.com slash strategy session.
1:10.2	Thanks.
1:11.2	Hope to see you there on May 8th.
1:14.3	Spellman College produces more black women who complete PhDs and STEM fields than any
1:21.0	other college or university in the country.
1:24.4	And we do that with a fraction of the resources.
1:28.4	So imagine if in fact this country were to begin to make those investments equitably, how
1:35.5	much more we could do to further the college completion rates for our community.
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