Benedict College

BENEDI CT COLLEGE northern missionary, Bathsheba Benedict, took a very modest amount of money – about $13,000 – and purchased an 80-acre slave plantation and committed it to the development of an institution that would educate the descendants of slaves. We have been for now 150 years, educating generations of the descendants of the former enslaved – the importance of that work is certainly not lost on any of us. These young people might be educated on the very soil that many of their ancestors would have toiled on during slavery.” BVM: How has the college changed since you became President? Artis: “I arrived in 2017. That year, we developed a strategic plan to guide the direction of the institution for the next five years and part of that was an evaluation of all academic programs. During that period, we began to de-emphasize criminal justice in favour of cyber security, recognizing the workforce implications of that President, Dr. Roslyn Artis