Emory University is estimating fewer than a half a dozen immigrants eligible for a special reprieve from deportation will enroll at the university this year after it begins offering them a new scholarship.
Asked where the money will come from and how much will be available, a spokeswoman for the private research university would identify the source only as “Emory institutional resources.”
“There is no predetermined formula for this,” Nancy Seideman, an Emory spokeswoman, said in an email in response to questions The Atlanta Journal-Constitution sent the university this week. “Scholarship awards, if needed, will be awarded on a case-by-case basis.”
Emory’s initiative is important for immigrants without legal status because they don’t qualify for federal student aid. Plus, Georgia bars them from attending some of its public universities – including the University of Georgia – and paying less expensive in-state tuition rates at others.
Emory officials say the scholarships will be made available to students who qualify for a deportation deferral through the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. That program applies to immigrants who were illegally brought to the U.S. as children, who attend school here and who have no felony convictions.
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