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After graduating from a St. Louis, Mo., high school where she was one of very few blacks, Elizabeth Johnson wanted to "try something different." She enrolled at Lincoln University, a historically black college founded by African-American Civil War veterans in Jefferson City, Mo. But Johnson was in for a shock when she arrived at her first class. "I was the only black face in the room," recalls the 19-year-old sophomore...
Johnson didn't realize that Lincoln is one of four historically black colleges and universities, out of 106, where white students are in the majority. Once revered as the black Harvard of the Middle West, Lincoln is now nearly 70% white. Overall, white enrollment at historically black colleges across the U.S. climbed 16% between 1990 and 1998. At Bluefield State College in West Virginia, more than 90% of the students are white...
...admitting more whites. Many offer minority scholarships to white students. Given the tide of opposition to affirmative action at mainstream institutions, the whites-only scholarships have sparked an outcry. But with African-American enrollment dropping, historically black colleges have no choice but to recruit people of all races. "Lincoln is schizophrenic at this point," says Rosemary Hearn, who has taught English at the school for 42 years. "There's always that real concern about how we're going to maintain our heritage...
...Lincoln, which has a strong agricultural program, has reinvented itself as an open-admissions school. Anyone who graduates from a state-accredited high school is eligible for admission. So Lincoln is attracting white commuter students from nearby farm towns who probably couldn't get admitted anywhere else. But Lincoln president David Henson insists that despite changing demographics, "the university's culture is still driven for the most part by African-American standards." All incoming students must take courses on cultural diversity and African-American history...
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