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College Dean Forced Scholarship Students to Work as Her Servants � Student Activism

College Dean Forced Scholarship Students to Work as Her Servants � Student Activism

College Dean Forced Scholarship Students to Work as Her Servants

Federal prosecutors are charging that an administrator at St. John’s University in New York forced scholarship students — most of them from overseas — to work as her personal servants without pay.

Feds say Cecilia Chang, dean of the university’s Institute of Asian Studies, made scholarship recipients do “menial tasks” unrelated to the university for twenty hours a week. They say Chang made students drive her and