1.0 link 185880 <![CDATA[ASU Renaming Scholarship Program After Obama]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/11/arizona-state-to-start-ba_n_185880.html After a day of withering criticism over its decision not to award President Barack Obama an honorary degree, Arizona State University announced on Saturday that it would expand a scholarship program in the president's name.

In a press release sent out by ASU spokeswoman Sharon Keeler, the university "apologized" for the "confusion" over the past few days. Its president Michael Crow, meanwhile, framed the "President Barack Obama Scholars" program as a higher honor than the honorary degree, one that would...

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