The Chronicle of Higher Education

Miss. Desegregation Plan Would Set Racial Enrollment Goals

By SARA HEBEL

Mississippi's three historically black universities would have to meet numerical goals for enrolling nonblack students before they could receive money from two proposed endowments, under the state's latest proposal for settling a 26-year-old desegregation lawsuit.

Under the 25-page, almost $500-million plan -- a copy of which was obtained by...

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