College catalyst.Anonymous benefactors are offering college scholarships for at least the next 13 years to nearly all high school graduates in Kalamazoo Kalamazoo (kăl'əməz  `), city (1990 pop. 80,277), seat of Kalamazoo co., SW Mich., on the Kalamazoo River at its confluence with Portage Creek; inc. 1883. , Mich. The scholarships will be good at any of Michigan's
public universities or community colleges. The amounts will depend on
bow long the student has been in Kalamazoo's school system, and
will cover between 65 percent and 100 percent of tuition For tuition fees in the United Kingdom, see .Tuition means instruction, teaching or a fee charged for educational instruction especially at a formal institution of learning or by a private tutor usually in the form of one-to-one tuition. and fees. Those who enrolled in kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be will get a free ride. Civic leaders are delighted with the program, called The Kalamazoo Promise The Kalamazoo Promise is a pledge by a group of anonymous donors to pay up to 100 percent of tuition at any of Michigan's state colleges or universities for graduates of Kalamazoo's public high schools. , and say it could transform this largely middle-class city of 77,000 by attracting businesses and drawing homebuyers with children. The district has 10,300 students. About 500 graduated in 2005 from high school, and about 85 percent of them applied to college. |
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