Higher education rode a roller coaster in 1995, a year of actions that provoked rage and hope, sorrow and joy.
A review of important developments, trends and ideas of 1995 offers a sense of the ups and downs for minorities in higher education.
The Courts & the Classroom
The year was marked by two fresh threats to the drive to achieve racial diversity in higher education.
In one action that strikes at Black access to higher education, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a three-judge panel’s decision striking down a scholarship program for Blacks at the University of Maryland.
In May the high court let stand a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in favor of Daniel J. Podberesky, a Hispanic who was rejected for the university’s Benjamin Banneker Scholarship program.
The program provides full tuition, room and board to about 80 Black students.
