Black Females Show Greater Presence on US Campus

Natasha Seavers, 23, a fifth-year engineering student at the University of Florida, comes from a blue-collar family. Her dad drives a bus and her mother works at a dry cleaner's.To get this close to graduating, Seavers had to borrow money and take some grants (助学金). She works 15 hours a week in the office of a carpet-cleaning firm. She's hoping to go to graduate school (研究生院), but will probably work first in construction as a civil engineer.