Desegregating or Debilitating Higher Education.

Ayres, Q. Whitfield

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Publication Date: 1982

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Desegregating or Debilitating Higher Education.

Ayres, Q. Whitfield

Public Interest, n69 p100-16 Fall 1982

Describes recent Office for Civil Rights efforts to desegregate higher education, eliminate racially identifiable colleges, and improve Black colleges. Holds that these policies debilitate public institutions by lowering standards, weakening curricula, and reducing autonomy in White institutions, while failing to provide Black colleges with strong faculty or better students. (Author/MJL)

Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Black Colleges, Educational Quality, Equal Education, Federal Legislation, Higher Education, Public Policy, Racial Discrimination, School Desegregation

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Language: English

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