Spelman Gets Record Gift And Will Use It For New Innovation Center

Spelman College announced Thursday that its president won’t be coming back from her leave of absence and is stepping down permanently.

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Spelman College received the largest gift from living donors in its 137-year history, a $30 million donation from long-standing Spelman trustee Ronda Stryker and spouse William Johnston.

The school said it will use the gift to help build the Center for Innovation & the Arts, the college’s first new academic facility since 1996.

Chicago architect, Jeanne Gang, founding principal of the firm Studio Gang, has completed a schematic design of the 85,000-square-foot building that will occupy a current parking lot at Spelman at the corner of Westview Drive and Lee Street, according to a Spelman news release.



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