Former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer is using his leftover campaign contributions to pay back his community. Archer, who served as mayor of Detroit from 1994 to 2001, is donating $1 million in scholarship money to both of his alma maters. Recipients of the scholarship money will be minority students who are attending either Western Michigan University or Wayne State University. Archer's decision to fund the scholarships was influenced by his own experience of pursuing a higher education while holding down a job. Dr. M. Roy Wilson, newly elected president of Wayne State University, believes that students deserve all of the help that they can get. "I've begun to think that this is the most effective use of money that we can do," Wilson said. "In my six weeks here, I've really come to appreciate the difficulty that many students have, where just a few dollars makes a big, big difference. It can mean the difference of whether they stay in school, whether they don't stay in school, whether they can get books or not, or live in student housing."

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