The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 14, 2010
By Eric Kelderman
Washington
A lawyer for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said on Friday that the panel may have to ask the U.S. Department of Justice for help in getting admissions data from Virginia Union University as part of an inquiry into its compliance with a key federal gender-equity law.
Virginia Union, a private, historically black college in Richmond, Va., is one of 19 institutions — a mix of public, private, religious, secular, and historically black colleges and universities — that the commission is examining for evidence of gender discrimination in undergraduate admissions.
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