Disappearing diversity scholarships.Under pressure from the federal government and fearing lawsuits claiming "reverse discrimination," colleges have begun offering white students the fellowships and scholarships intended to increase racial diversity. Of the 42 scholarships once intended for undergraduates of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color at Washington University Washington University, at St. Louis, Mo.; coeducational; est. as Eliot Seminary 1853, opened 1854, renamed 1857. It has a well-known medical school and school of social work as well as research centers for radiology, space studies, engineering computing, and the , white students received 12 for the 2005-6 school year. The trend has stunned stun tr.v. stunned, stun·ning, stuns 1. To daze or render senseless, by or as if by a blow. 2. To overwhelm or daze with a loud noise. 3. Theodore Shaw, president of the NAACP NAACP in full National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Oldest and largest U.S. civil rights organization. It was founded in 1909 to secure political, educational, social, and economic equality for African Americans; W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Legal Defense and Education Fund, who asked: "How is it that they conclude that the great evil in this country is discrimination against white people?" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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