In 1968 the University of Illinois's campus in Urbana-Champaign set out to start enrolling 500 new black students every year.Don't the white Democrat party members running University of Illinois care about black students??? Or is it all about the Benjamins?
According to The News-Gazette in Champaign, the state's flagship public university hasn't enrolled that many new black students in six years. This year the figure was 356.
Blacks make up 4.87 percent of 43,603 students on campus. But 14.7 percent of the state's population is black.
Ruby Mendenhall is a sociology and African-American Studies professor at the university. She said the university needs to reflect the state.
Monday, October 13, 2014
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Illinois Review reports on the new Jim Crow laws against blacks in Illinois: