TheDream.US, a national scholarship fund aimed at helping students in the country illegally pay for college, has recently been established.
“Over the next decade, TheDream.US fund will provide college scholarships to enable more than 2,000 low-income DREAMers to complete college,” Diverse Issues in Higher Education reports. “Last week, it was announced that 39 students with an average GPA of 3.5 had received scholarships. Twelve higher education institutions have signed on as partners with the TheDream.US organization, and they are expected to support the aspirations of DREAMer-scholars.”
Diverse Issues In Higher Education goes on to report:
TheDream.US officials say that more than $25 million has been raised from philanthropic and business leaders, including Graham’s family, from across the nation. Last year, the Graham family sold the Washington Post to Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Scholarship fund supporters include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Fernandez Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Inter-American Development Bank.
Annually, an estimated 65,000 undocumented students graduate from U.S. high schools. A number of private colleges provide scholarships to undocumented students and 17 states now allow them to receive in-state tuition rates at public colleges, according to the Washington Post.
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