Last week, Ayiana Davis Polen finally set foot on the campus of Spelman College — a historically Black liberal arts school for women in Atlanta. She’s a freshman there but had started her college experience last fall taking classes from her bedroom in Puerto Rico.
Back then, she wasn’t sure if it felt like college — but then again, she had nothing to compare it with.
Now, she’s about to. Spelman, like many colleges across the U.S., is beefing up its in-person offerings for the spring semester. For Davis Polen, that meant there was a spot for her in a dorm on the picturesque campus.
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