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University of Maryland president is still optimistic

University of Maryland president is still optimistic
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Flagship universities don t enroll proportionate numbers of Black and Latino students

Share this: College students sit in the shade on the horseshoe at the University of South Carolina. In 2019, its entering class was 6 percent Black in a state where 37 percent of public high school graduates were Black. Credit: Sean Rayford/Getty Images The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get stories like this delivered directly to your inbox. Alarms sounded at the University of Maryland when the Class of 2022 arrived at College Park. Seven percent of freshmen in fall 2018 were Black, down from 10 percent the year before and 13 percent in 2014.

Flagship universities say diversity is a priority But Black enrollment in many states continues to lag

Flagship universities say diversity is a priority. But Black enrollment in many states continues to lag. Lauren Lumpkin, Meredith Kolodner, Nick Anderson © Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post University of Maryland seniors Alysa Conway and Saba Tshibaka, seen Thursday on the College Park campus, are organizers with Black Terps Matter, a student group that has been vocal about issues that affect Black students. Alarms sounded at the University of Maryland when the Class of 2022 arrived at College Park. Seven percent of freshmen in fall 2018 were Black, down from 10 percent the year before and 13 percent in 2014. It marked a nadir for a metric crucial to the flagship university’s commitment to diversity in a state where about a third of public high school graduates each year are Black.

Flagship universities say diversity is a priority But Black enrollment in many states continues to lag

Flagship universities say diversity is a priority But Black enrollment in many states continues to lag
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Colleges weigh taking action against incendiary comments in aftermath of Capitol attack

Alex Edelman/Contributor via Getty Images In the aftermath of the attacks on the United States Capitol by supporters of President Trump, college leaders are being asked to confront dangerous and offensive speech by students, faculty, and staff members that promote false claims about the 2020 election and support the violence that occurred last week as a result of the spread of such claims. The calls for administrators to rid their colleges of those who hold such views, and to examine how their institutions combat misinformation, is often complicated by First Amendment protections. Colleges and universities, after all, are meant to be forums for students to voice, debate and defend arguments founded in truth, experts on political expression said.

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