Spelman College Receives $1 Million Gift for New Riggio Scholars Program and Planned Arts and Innovation Center
ATLANTA (December 19, 2016) – Spelman College is pleased to announce the College is the beneficiary of a $1 million gift from Leonard and Louise Riggio that will establish the Riggio Scholars Program and support the College’s planned arts and innovation center. “From the moment I was surrounded by its warm embrace, I was head over heels in love with Spelman College, and especially with the beautiful people who study and teach there,” said Leonard Riggio, the founder and chairman of Barnes and Noble, Inc., the nation’s largest retail bookseller, of his visit to the College. “The whole of