Columbia University custodian to graduate after 12 years of part-time study

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May 10, 2012

A Columbia University custodian who could not speak English when he fled worn-torn Yugoslavia in 1992 will graduate from the Ivy League school with honors this weekend after working toward his degree in classics for 12 years. full story

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Columbia University seeks to change whites-only fellowship

Columbia University is seeking to alter the 1920 charter of one of its graduate school fellowships which is still limited "to persons of the Caucasian race," though the fellowship has not been granted in years.

cnn.com (1 month and 3 days ago)

Columbia University moves to modernize trust fund

The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship hasn't been used in years because it contains restrictions from a bygone era – including the requirement that recipients be white.In 1920, Columbia University received a gift of more than half a million dollars from a longtime resident of Des Moines.

latimes.com (13 days ago)

NYC's Columbia seeks to alter whites-only bequest

NEW YORK - Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a fellowship that can only be awarded to white students from Iowa. The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship stipulates that money be given only to "a person of the Caucasian race." Roberts left Columbia most of her $509,000 estate when she died in 1920 and created the highly restrictive fellowship. In addition...

bostonherald.com (1 month and 4 days ago)

Columbia Wants To Change Bizarre 'Whites-Only' Fellowship

NEW YORK -- Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a fellowship that can only be awarded to white students from Iowa. The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship stipulates that money be given only to "a person of the Caucasian race." Roberts left Columbia most of her $509,000 estate when she died in 1920 and created the highly restrictive fellowship. In addition...

huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 4 days ago)

NYC's Columbia seeks to alter whites-only bequest

Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a fellowship that can only be awarded to white students from Iowa. The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship stipulates that money be given only to "a person of the Caucasian race." Roberts left Columbia most of her $509,000 estate when she died in 1920 and created the highly restrictive fellowship. In addition to the...

foxnews.com (1 month and 4 days ago)

Columbia U. seeks to alter whites-only bequest

NEW YORK - Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a 93-year-old trust earmarked for white students from Iowa. The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship stipulates that money be given only to "a person of the Caucasian race" from Iowa. Roberts left Columbia most of her $509,000 estate when she died in 1920 and created the highly restrictive fellowship. It also...

bostonherald.com (1 month and 4 days ago)

'Whites-only' scholarship at Columbia University creates outrage

At Columbia University a scholarship for whites only has created outrage. Ironically, 50 years after the Civil Rights Act, a movement is underway to change the Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship as the Jim Crow-esque fellowship conflicts incites...

examiner.com (1 month and 4 days ago)

Whites-only scholarship may be changed at Columbia University

The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship stipulates that money be given only to "a person of the Caucasian race."In addition to the "whites only" rule, Roberts fellows must be from Iowa, must not study law or several other fields, and must return to Iowa for two years after graduating.

oregonlive.com (1 month and 4 days ago)

Columbia Students Are Eating 100 Pounds Of Nutella A Day

Columbia University students are obsessed with Nutella. How obsessed? Columbia College Student Council representative Peter Bailinson told the Col... Read more: Columbia Nutella, Nutella Craze, Columbia University, Nutella Columbia Dining Center, Nutella, Columbia, Nutella Columbia, Columbia University Nutella, Crazy for Nutella, College News

huffingtonpost.com (3 months and 14 days ago)

Public policy in graduate’s future

Astoria graduate Reynaldo Goicochea has earned the Rackham Master’s Fellowship Award for full-time study at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

dailyastorian.com (2 months and 16 days ago)

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