UConn building 'black-only' living space to promote scholarship

Fox News ^ | February 02, 2016 | Cody Derespina

[Olog-hai]

Faced with alarmingly low graduation rates for black males, the University of Connecticut is trying something it calls bold -- and critics call segregation.

The school's main campus in Storrs has launched a program slated for fall in which 40 black male undergraduates live together in on-campus housing. Proponents believe the students can draw on their common experiences and help each other make it to commencement. But others cringe at the idea of black-only housing, saying it turns decades of hard-fought racial progress on its head. [...]

ScHOLA²RS House -- which stands for "Scholastic House of Leaders who are African American Researchers and Scholars" -- was designed so UConn could more effectively marshal resources for black males, similar to other learning communities at the school that live as a group. When ScHOLA²RS House launches, it will be located in a new facility, Next Generation Connecticut Hall, along with seven other learning communities.

Niger Innis, the national spokesperson for the Congress of Racial Equality, said UConn may be unintentionally creating an atmosphere where black students are "the other." ...

[ichabod1]

No, believe it or not, Niger Innis is one of the good guys.

[dfwgator]

That was no accident.

[ichabod1]

j-roc whass up yo

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

And it’s the Repubs that are accused of wanting to return to the past? Sheeesh.

[aomagrat]

The campus police will have to open a sub-station in that dorm.

[Bon mots]

How about whites only dorms then?

[GRRRRR]

...not to mention the “Ain’t Sure” Dorms...

Yikes!

[stylin19a]

Quandary stuff - Can I get in if I self-identify as african-american? or How about if I'm a white south african-american

[Crucial]

This is bound to backfire.

[9YearLurker]

What do racially segregated dorms offer for concentrating on studies? A critical mass of sociology and African American studies majors?

[dp0622]

oh thanks! he was a stand up guy, kind of the anti Sharpton, no?

as i recall, i always liked him.

but of course he’s an “uncle tom”.

[freedumb2003]

>>No, believe it or not, Niger Innis is one of the good guys.<<

Which is why he took the mistake with grace and humor — 2 qualities missing from liberals.

[freedumb2003]

OOpps — got my Niger’s confused!!! Ignore last post (I was taking about the other one with the TV problem).

Thanks for the info about Innis.

[Caipirabob]

Democrats: building a bridge back to ‘reconstruction’, without the reconstruction part...

[struggle]

gnomesayin?

[MasterGunner01]

To UConn: Way to go, liberal academics and their brainwahed students! Re-institute SEGREGATION for the unwashed black masses (and for their own good, too).