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New Scholarship Could Help Undocumented Immigrants Go to College
Produced by Mike Rhee on Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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A new scholarship from Roosevelt University could give some undocumented immigrants the chance to go to college. The plan has drawn the ire of some who oppose illegal immigration.
Social Justice High School on Chicago's Near West Side will see its first group of seniors graduate next year. Those students also will be eligible for a full scholarship to Roosevelt University, in Chicago and Northwest suburban Schaumburg. University president Chuck Middleton says anyone can qualify, including undocumented immigrants. He says that shouldn't be controversial because state law already allows those immigrants to attend state schools.
MIDDLETON: They can go to the public universities in the state of Illinois, without question, paying the heavily subsidized in-state tuition rates, and why not make for those for whom this is an optimal place to be, Roosevelt, available to them on a same or similar basis?
Meantime, William Gheen with Americans for Legal Immigration opposes the scholarship. He says it could take opportunities away from citizens who have a right to those spots.
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Jan Bone, Palatine // Sunday, June 01, 2008 @ 4:16 PM
As a 46-year resident of Palatine and an adjunct faculty (part-time) instructor at Roosevelt, I'm glad my university is offering this scholarship. It closely matches the aims of Senator Dick Durbin's DREAM ACT, introduced in the U.S. Senate twice before, but not yet approved.
I remember after WWII when my late husband was able to attend college, graduate, and have a productive career because of the GI Bill that represented the U.S.'s investment in people. I think that the offer of this scholarship will be of similar benefit to those who receive it, and I wish for them success in college and in later life. I hope that some of the recipients will be in a class I teach one day.
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Antonio Plascencia, Hyde Park // Friday, June 06, 2008 @ 11:54 PM
Roosevelt University is paving a new and revolutionary path for the much deserved rights of human beings, despite status, to obtain access to higher education in the United States.
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