Courtroom is packed for HBCU ‘equality’ lawsuit

By Alexis Taylor
Contributing Writer

(Special to the Trice Edney payday loans emerson ave News Wire from the Afro American Newspapers)—Dr. Samuel Myers said it “hurt his heart” as he listened to testimony at the ongoing HBCU equality trial, January 31. The president emeritus of Bowie State College, one of Maryland’s four HBCUs, said he’s spent his life working in higher education. “And I’ve seen the disparities that exist between funding for Blacks in higher education and those generally,” he said. “And I know that the courts have long since ruled that the disparity be eliminated.”

first cash advance terrell texas He had no problem declaring, “But it still exists.”

Which is most likely the reason he was joined in the Garmatz Courtroom by other former educators and administrators including Dr. Andrew Billingsley, former president of Morgan State Uni­ver­sity; Dr. Arthur Thomas, former president Central State University; Dr. Wilma J. Roscoe, retired vice president of National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) and Raymond Pierce, dean, North Carolina Central State Law School and who also served as Deputy real loans with bad credit Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education during the Clinton Administration.

Pierce was angered by the visible absence of anyone from the Obama Administration. “It is a shame that the Office for Civil Rights has had no presence in this trial,” Pierce said. “I find it very troubling.”

Myers was incensed that anyone could say HBCUs need to become more competitive with other schools.

“I know each institution needs to and wants to survive in payday loans with deferral options its own right, but this inequitable funding hurts the entire nation. When you have a high unemployment rate among young Black males, education is needed to get them into the workforce,” he said, indicating that his work with national and international organizations gives him a broader perspective.

“It’s not a matter of largesse, not charity, not goodwill to provide equitable treatment for Blacks.”

Claiming that Maryland has perpetuated a system of segregation by underfunding and allowing program duplication by nearby traditionally payday loans in wisconsin white schools (TWIs) the presidents were also joined this week by the very students they’re fighting for.

“When the investment made by the state in white institutions is compared to the state’s investment in historically Black colleges, there is little comparison,” said Dr. Earl S. Richardson, president of Morgan State University from 1984 to 2010. “If one were to look at the investments made in the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and then at Morgan—one can see that there is online installment loan texas a stark difference,” said Dr. Richardson in response to Vivona’s testimony, which gave the impression that the state of Maryland has gone out of its way to fund historical Black institutions (HBIs).

“The whole idea of the lawsuit by the Coalition is now to ensure that there is equity in the investment made by the state in Black institutions versus white institutions.”

National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) president and CEO, Lezli Baskerville, said “This case will directly top in Huntsville AL cash advance impact the shape of the higher education debate in 2012 and beyond in the 25 states that have HBCUs and TWIs, as well as the work of NAFEO. What this court decides will determine whether public higher education in America remains separate and unequal, or whether the nation moves toward a more excellence, equitable and just higher education system…”

This article was originally published in the February 13, 2012 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper