Highland Community College, a small higher education institution in Kansas, has settled a lawsuit over allegedly discriminatory search practices.
Kansas community college that was accused of trying to reduce the number of Black student-athletes has agreed to a settlement, the Justice Department announced Monday. The department said in a news release that the agreement requires Highland Community College to make its disciplinary proceedings more fair, to provide more training and to improve its procedures for responding to student complaints.
The agreement resolves the department's investigation into complaints that Black students were targeted for searches and disciplined more severely than their white peers, resulting in their unfair removal from campus housing, or even expulsion, the department said in the release."No college student should have their educational experience marred or disrupted by discrimination based on their race," said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, of the
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