`BU Management School minority fellowship program` *(matches canon)*

Used as the positive contrast to MIT's neglect of its NROTC student. First cohort: 10 fellowships, fewer than half graduate. Second cohort: 10 fellowships plus mandatory tutoring sessions, 8 of 10 graduate. The lesson: structural support, not just admission, is what makes a minority-fellowship program work.

I'll tell you a story about something similar that happened over at BU in the management school. Some donor to the management school wanted to have more minorities, so he gave 10 full-ride scholarships to go to management school. Ordinarily you pay your own way through management school. They gave out 10 of these fellowships the first year to minority students, and not half made it through. Rather than saying, well, minorities just can't hack it, they said, wait, this is our fault. We thought we would bring them in here and just throw them in with everybody else. So the next year they admitted 10 more, and they told them, you're getting a free ride, you're going to be here every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon and evenings, and we're going to have a tutor here for you to help you learn how to study. And eight out of ten made it that year.