Alabama Desegregation Orders Due To Expire
/Judicial orders on a 1981 de-segregation case are set to expire and it
could affect Alabama A&M University. Judicial orders from the
23 year old lawsuit, Knight-Sims vs. Alabama higher education will
expire next July...But plaintiffs are hoping the orders are
extened. Plainiffs filed suit in Knight-Sims versus Alabama
higher education to help give historically black universities the same
oppurtunities as historically white universities. As a result, the
court mandated a wide variety of reforms ranging from efforts to
increase the representation of blacks on the faculities and
administrations of the historically white universities...to providing
new academic programs and funds for historically black universities. If
the decrees expire...Alabama A& M could possibly lose state
funding. Alease Sims says "Funding for the programs that we have
established and the programs they are trying to bring on before the
July 31st deadline that will need continued funding and we have to be
concerned about continued funding for our new urban extension programs,
our school of engineering." [more