The Maryland Senate approved today a bill intended to protect the state’s historically black public colleges from having their white students drawn away by new programs at other colleges that duplicate their own.
The bill was drafted in response to a 2005 vote by the Maryland Higher Education Commission to let the University of Baltimore and Towson University jointly offer a new program — a master’s degree in business administration — that had been strongly opposed by the historically black Morgan State University. Morgan State complained at the time that the commission was violating a federal desegregation agreement under which it had pledged to prevent the duplication of programs already offered by historically black colleges seeking to attract white students. So far, however, the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has declined to intervene.
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