New Delhi, July 30 -- JOHANNESBURG - Two more classes of young women will graduate from Oprah Winfrey's residential academy outside Johannesburg before the gates close for the last time. For every girl after them, the school that changed the lives of more than a thousand South Africans over nearly two decades will exist only as a scholarship.

a scholarship program she says will reach double the number of girls the residential model ever could.

Winfrey described the shift as a deepening of the original mission rather than a departure from it, saying in a statement that the school itself was never the point; investing in the limitless potential of young women was. "I'm excited that this next chapter will allow us to reach even more young ...