The full-tuition scholarship has covered the amount for the nearly 1, 000 undergraduates who attend the college's architecture, engineering or art schools.
According to a controversial recent study, led by the sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa and summarized in their book "Academically Adrift, " nearly half of all undergraduates fail to demonstrate significant improvements in critical thinking or writing skills during their first two years in college.