Post by Logan on Jan 8, 2017 13:46:19 GMT -6
Decade-long legal battle to scrub segregation from Maryland universities returns to federal court
A decade-long lawsuit to scrub traces of segregation from Maryland's university system returns to federal court in Baltimore Monday with both sides still firmly entrenched in their positions after years of unsuccessful mediation.
The lawsuit filed in 2006 argued that academic programs at well-funded, traditionally white public universities eroded similar programs at historically black colleges. The complaint called for some of those programs to be stripped from the predominantly white institutions and transferred to the black institutions.
The Maryland Higher Education Commission has balked at the demands, arguing in court filings that removal of key academic programs would harm students of all races at the state's largest universities.
Court-ordered mediation failed in 2011 and 2014. Now U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake has ordered both sides to return to court to decide remedies.
Read more: www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/higher-ed/bs-md-college-segregation-lawsuit-20170108-story.html
A decade-long lawsuit to scrub traces of segregation from Maryland's university system returns to federal court in Baltimore Monday with both sides still firmly entrenched in their positions after years of unsuccessful mediation.
The lawsuit filed in 2006 argued that academic programs at well-funded, traditionally white public universities eroded similar programs at historically black colleges. The complaint called for some of those programs to be stripped from the predominantly white institutions and transferred to the black institutions.
The Maryland Higher Education Commission has balked at the demands, arguing in court filings that removal of key academic programs would harm students of all races at the state's largest universities.
Court-ordered mediation failed in 2011 and 2014. Now U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake has ordered both sides to return to court to decide remedies.
Read more: www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/higher-ed/bs-md-college-segregation-lawsuit-20170108-story.html