Yves: Hope against the Odds

Autor/in	Morgan, Joyce Vining
Titel	Yves: Hope against the Odds
Quelle	In: Journal of College Admission, (2006) 192, S.6-9 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0734-6670
Schlagwörter	Foreign Students; Boarding Schools; Culture Conflict; Tuition Grants; Profiles; Postsecondary Education; Scholarships; Student Financial Aid; Access to Education; Student Adjustment; College Bound Students; Civil Rights; Blacks; Immigrants; Private Financial Support; Africa; Congo; Rwanda + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Boarding school; Internat; Kulturkonflikt; Tuition; Grants; Unterricht; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Scholarship; Stipendium; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Black person; Schwarzer; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Private Investition; Afrika; Kongo; Ruanda
Abstract	This article relates the story of Jean-Yves Ngabonziza, a full-need international student. During his senior year, on Rwandan National Mourning Day, April 6, 19-year-old Yves spoke to the entire school community for the first time about his past and the past of his native country. He began with the history of central Africa, introduced the factions of the Rwandan conflict, described the genocide ("a civil war that erupted into genocide"), told how it played out and resolved. It was a remarkably professional presentation, in Yves' fourth language. Yves' education was made possible by the efforts of a Chicago-based Congolese man intent upon establishing a foundation for young Central Africans to be educated in the United States. With the assurance that his organization would provide for Yves' postsecondary education, Yves received a full scholarship package and stipend. The author contends that if individual philanthropists and foundations could match a college offer of a full tuition grant, third-world students would be amply supported--and many colleges can make that offer. If more high schools could prepare third-world students for their colleges, there would be little risk to accepting them to study for the B. A. and beyond. The Congolese scholar placed a number of Rwandan and Congolese young people in various independent boarding schools. Every one of these schools nurtured the international students through culture shock and adjustment to a new academic environment, taught them English and prepared them to flourish in college. All they need, to release their unlimited potential, is continued financial support. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10