Advocates for a struggling historically black college in Pennsylvania are taking their message to the state Capitol to press officials to help save it amid plunging enrollment.
Cheyney University's enrollment of about 700 undergraduate and graduate students is about half what it was in 2009.
About 200 Cheyney supporters attended a Harrisburg rally on Tuesday. Advocates say decades of discrimination by the state system and foot-dragging on other court cases has left Cheyney in a dire financial situation.
Cheyney supporters originally filed a bias lawsuit against the state in 1980. But they say the formula for funding the state system's 14 schools is still skewed against smaller schools like Cheyney.
A spokesman for the state system says it is trying to help Cheyney and that the school's per-pupil allocation is nearly four times the average for the other universities.
Cheyney University Wants State To Help Save It
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