One university leader says, 'we want to create an environment of learning not an environment of black and white, one side or the other.'

The program will award 4,000 students college scholarships at about 20 Illinois institutions.

Jaskaran Singh outlasted Kennesaw State’s Raymond Goslow and Northeastern's Liz Feltner to win the $250,000 top prize.

“Our first steps onto the field, we were greeted with, ‘F--- Howard! You’re not welcome here!’ They said, ‘We don’t want you here!’ They told us to go home,” coach Karen Healy-Silcott said.