A little less sensational info found here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57499701/mass-college-offers-illegal-immigrant-scholarship/
Damn that Orin Hatch and his DREAM act!
"Hampshire alumni, graduating students, parents and other donors have given more than $300,000 since the spring to fund the scholarship and an endowment to sustain it."
"Justin Draeger, the president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, praised states, schools and scholarship funds that recognize this population of students didn't come to the country by choice. Most were illegally brought to the country as young children or infants."