How To Remedy Segregation in Higher Education in Maryland

download MorganDecember 10, 2015 – Segment 2

Guest host, Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, associate professor of American Studies at Universtiy Maryland Baltimore County, (UMBC), and her guests discuss the latest updates in the case between Maryland HBCUs, (Historically Black Colleges and Universities), and predominately White institutions.

She is joined with Laslo Boyd, former education advisor to the Governor of Maryland and former Acting Secretary of Higher Education; ER Shipp, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Journalist-in-Residence and Associate Professor of Journalism at Morgan State University whose article was recently published in Baltimore Sun, “Dueling visions of Maryland’s HBCUs” ; Dr. George R. La Noue, Research Professor of both Political Science and Public Policy at UMBC, whose article was published in the Baltimore Sun, “MD. HBCU Integration or Aggrandizement?“;  and Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., President and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, the only national organization representing nearly 300,000 students attending this country’s 47 publicly-supported HBCUs.