The University System Board of Regents approved the first college merger involving a historically black college. Albany State University, a four-year black college, is to be consolidated with Darton State College, where more students are white. Federal law stipulates that historically black institutions, even if losing money or students, cannot be shuttered. If two schools are consolidated, the result must still must be majority black. This will be the seventh merger in recent years designed to save money and enhance student performance, so the Regents’ boat is definitely RISING…
