November 18, 2005

Md. Approves Disputed Program

By PETER SCHMIDT

The Maryland Higher Education Commission voted overwhelmingly last week to let two public colleges jointly offer a new business program that had been strongly opposed by historically black Morgan State University.

The panel's decision came despite an earlier warning by the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights that such a move could violate a five-year-old desegregation agreement under which the commission had pledged to avoid the duplication of programs that were already

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