(2005)

Calvin W. Burnett, Ph.D. Maryland Higher Education Commission

CIVIL RIGHTS AND DISCRIMINATION

You have asked for our analysis of the standards by which Maryland higher education officials can assess whether the State has complied with its constitutional and statutory obligations to dismantle the de jure racial segregation — that is, segregation imposed by law — that was long part of the State's public higher education system. You ask for this opinion in view of the imminent expiration of the State's most recent agreement with the Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") of the federal Department of…