A University for Immigrants: Only in the Big Apple!

The L.A. Times has an upbeat story on the Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York.  Many U.S. universities have honors colleges, but

 “CUNY’s has an extra goal of turning ambitious immigrants and the children of the working class into worldly New Yorkers with a heart for public good. Macaulay scholars are required to take a series of seminars about New York and clock 30 hours of public service. They each get a laptop, $7,500 to study abroad or defray costs during an unpaid internship and a `passport” to New York arts and cultural venues. Each student is also assigned four advisors who push and coddle, strategize and negotiate, with the intention of getting these least-entitled students on equal footing with the elite.”

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