April 16, 1999

Black-College Leaders Discuss Issue of Access

By KENNETH MA

Attacks on affirmative action, along with policies that restrict remedial classes, are limiting African-American students' access to higher education, leaders of a national association of historically black colleges said at the group's annual meeting last week.

Colleges are raising admissions standards and are eliminating remedial programs at four-year colleges "in ways that will disproportionately affect

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