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RILEEH, ca. 1966
""Equal Educational Opportunities"" by Corinne Janssens Page 11
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RILEEH: A STAND FOR Equal Educational Opportunities by Corinne Janssens "If our students are to catch up, they don't have to run twice as fast for four years; they can run all night while the others are sleeping..." A Negro college president Rust College stands on a high hill in Mississippi, on the former site of a slave auction block, overlooking the small town of Holly Springs - county seat and once the slave trading center of the Delta county. Forty-five miles up a narrow highway, through some of the most barren countryside in the South, is is urban cousin, LeMoyne College - occupying a city block of magnolia-shaded campus in the heart of a Negro neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee. Rust and LeMoyne are two of 105 predominantly Negro colleges classified as "developing institutions" under Title III of the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965, and hence eligible for federal funds. Because of previous sympathetic relations with The University of Iowa, both schools have asked the U of I to serve as their sponsor under the guidelines of HEA. President Howard R. Bowen met this request last fall with the appointment of an ad hoc
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RILEEH: A STAND FOR Equal Educational Opportunities by Corinne Janssens "If our students are to catch up, they don't have to run twice as fast for four years; they can run all night while the others are sleeping..." A Negro college president Rust College stands on a high hill in Mississippi, on the former site of a slave auction block, overlooking the small town of Holly Springs - county seat and once the slave trading center of the Delta county. Forty-five miles up a narrow highway, through some of the most barren countryside in the South, is is urban cousin, LeMoyne College - occupying a city block of magnolia-shaded campus in the heart of a Negro neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee. Rust and LeMoyne are two of 105 predominantly Negro colleges classified as "developing institutions" under Title III of the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965, and hence eligible for federal funds. Because of previous sympathetic relations with The University of Iowa, both schools have asked the U of I to serve as their sponsor under the guidelines of HEA. President Howard R. Bowen met this request last fall with the appointment of an ad hoc
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