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<\/a>In Photo (L to R): Alexander Fox ’24, Karen Rigg, Robert Rigg ’74, Freddie Sanchez Govea ’23, Heizel Monterrosa-Guevara ’25<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cWe are grateful to the Riggs who have invested in furthering the education for first-generation students to attend our institution,\u201d Elizabethtown College President Cecilia M. McCormick, J.D. said. \u201cTheir commitment and support will offer students an opportunity to gain a high-quality education and student-life experience to lead productive and purposeful careers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The scholarship is closely tied to the Chester County Futures<\/a> program to which Bob and Karen are also dedicated supporters. The Chester County Futures program offers direct program support and services through after-school academic enrichment meetings, mentoring, and post-secondary scholarship support to economically disadvantaged Chester County students. Students who have completed the Chester County Futures \u201cPassport to College\u201d program receive preference in the Rigg Scholarship application process.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have for decades been supporters of causes involving youth,\u201d Bob said. \u201cGiving forward is something Karen and I think is extremely important if we want to help create change.\u201d<\/p>\n
Students who receive the scholarship also are expected to participate in Elizabethtown College\u2019s Momentum Program. Etown\u2019s Momentum program introduces incoming students to the College\u2019s robust curriculum through real-world learning opportunities and acclimates them to the college environment. Through an examination of a wide variety of academic disciplines, students learn how to navigate through curriculum requirements, think critically, develop research and writing skills, engage in creative expression, and find a balance between academic responsibility and co-curricular involvement.<\/p>\n
\u201cKaren and I have supported the Momentum program because of its mission,\u201d said Bob. \u201cWe believe in the program immensely and we\u2019ve seen it yield such great results. As we saw the two programs develop, it just seemed a wonderful combination.\u201d<\/p>\n
An alum of Elizabethtown College, Bob is Chairman and a Business Risk Consultant at The Rigg Darlington Group. Karen is also Senior Assistant Account Manager for the firm. Bob graduated from Elizabethtown College in 1974 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in accounting.<\/p>\n
View more details about the Rigg Chester County Futures Scholarship<\/a> College\u2019s Financial Aid website<\/a> and Elizabethtown College admissions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Recently, Elizabethtown College received a $2.5 million gift pledge, the largest toward an endowed scholarship by a living donor in College history, from Robert \u201874 and Karen Rigg. The gift supports the Robert ’74 and Karen Rigg Chester County Futures Scholarship. Established in 2018, this scholarship provides full room, board, and tuition for up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":10907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,1339,7,1488,6],"tags":[1400,1292,1469,943],"class_list":["post-10906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-alumni","category-campus-community","category-donors","category-service","tag-donors","tag-institutional-advancement","tag-rigg-family-scholarship","tag-scholarship","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10906"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21547,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906\/revisions\/21547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}