Hunter College of the City University of New York has received a $9 million gift from the family of alumna Eva Kastan Grove ('58), the Wall Street Journal reports.

The gift includes $4 million to establish the Eva Kastan Grove Scholars Program at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College and support a variety of student activities and programs in public policy, social justice, and human rights. The remaining $5 million will fund the Eva Kastan Grove Scholarship and Internship Endowment Fund, which will primarily benefit students who demonstrate a commitment to public service and are immigrants or the children of immigrants, are undocumented or otherwise ineligible for other sources of support, and/or are underrepresented in their fields. The internship grants to students are especially important, said Hunter College president Jennifer J. Raab, because they enable many students to take on an unpaid position at a nongovernmental organization or nonprofit, a critical step in climbing the career ladder.

Kastan Grove, whose family made the gift in honor of her eightieth birthday and commitment to advocacy, social service, and immigrants' rights and dignity, is herself an immigrant. When Kastan Grove was three years old, her family fled Nazi Germany to Bolivia; she arrived in New York at the age of eighteen and spent many hours at Roosevelt House. Her husband, former Intel chairman Andrew Grove, emigrated from Hungary in 1957 and was a student at City College when they met at a summer job they both found through the university's job placement center.

"Hunter opened the doors to America for me," Kastan Grove told the Journal.