Maryland's four historically black colleges and universities are more segregated today than in decades past because of discriminatory practices and policies maintained by the state's Higher Education Commission, lawyers told a federal court judge Wednesday.
"The result is [that the four colleges] fall farther and farther behind," said John Greenbaum, a civil rights attorney representing an advocacy group that sued the commission.
The lawsuit, originally filed in 2006 and since amended four times, contends that the state underfunds black schools, particularly in capital improvement projects, and allows unnecessary duplication of programs by surrounding institutions.
But attorneys for the commission say there's no proof that disparities, if any, are intentional or even the result of policies that have roots in segregation.
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what a joke, UMES offers degrees in occupations that third world immigrants manage to do here just fine with their 7th grade education levels.
underfunded? how many of them go there for free? Or at a substanially reduced rate that no white kid would ever get?
If I'm a white kid and I go to UMES wouldn't I then qualify for a minority scholarship? Guess again!
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