Experts: Black studies programs facing campus challenges
African American university students in a classroom.
DETROIT (AP) — Protests by University of Missouri Black students that forced the school’s administration to address racism and other problems mirror efforts decades ago that led many majority white schools to create African-American studies and other programs.
But those programs and some ethnic studies departments across the country are struggling with funding, low-staffing and dwindling student enrollment, according to some expert
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