Fletcher, Yale University, and Marta Tienda, Princeton University, "High School Peer Networks and College Success: Lessons from Texas" Stephen Desjardins and Brian McCall, University of Michigan, "The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program on the College Enrollment, Borrowing, and Work Behavior of Low-Income Minority Students" Cortes and McFarlin analyze the benefits of attending selective public colleges in the context of race-sensitive admissions: they estimate how college quality and the admissions-policy change, from affirmative action to the Top 10% Plan, affect college completion.
Byline: Emily Heffter; Seattle Times education reporter Correction Publication Date: 02/05/2008 - The Gates Millennium Scholars program was established in 1999.
She is a teaching fellow in Algebra II for Stanford's Upward Bound Saturday Academy and a member of several honor societies, including the Gates Millennium Scholars Program, the Google Scholars Program and the Hispanic College Fund Scholars Program.
Those managing the Bill Gates Millennium Scholars Program might have a difficult time this year as they decide how to distribute money among minority students who need help paying for college.
The Gates Millennium Scholars program, funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, provides outstanding low-income Asian and Pacific Islander American, African-American, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Hispanic American students with an opportunity to complete an undergraduate college education in any discipline they choose.
In 2001, the American Indian Graduate Center created the American Indian Graduate Center Scholars organization to administer the American Indian/Alaska Native component of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program (GMSP), which selects 150 incoming freshmen, per year, who are pursuing undergraduate degree and funding a total of 600 students each year.
