Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Westchester Community Foundation Helps Students Turn Opportunity Into College Degrees
Walter Ramos described his journey from Yonkers to Southern Vermont College in two words: culture shock.
Last month, Ramos and three other former Yonkers Public Schools students graduated from the private liberal-arts college in Vermont's Green Mountains with four-year degrees partly paid for by the Yonkers Partners In Education and the Westchester Community Foundation's Albertina Bloom Scholarship.
YPIE's goal was to target students who were vulnerable to dropping out of college for academic, personal or financial reasons and send them to a college with a big safety net...