New WSU scholarship will help DACA students succeed

Scholarship winners

Former Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson and his wife, Stacy, have established a generous scholarship at Wichita State University to help children of undocumented immigrants earn their degrees to pursue the American Dream.

The Parkinsons said they believe the contributions of immigrants have helped the United States become the greatest country in the world.

“What we have built in the United States is a miracle,” Mark Parkinson said. “The question was whether people from all over the world could come together, form a new government, build a just society, practice free market capitalism and succeed. The results have been spectacular.”

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