Has The Seed Been Planted To Merge Historically Black Colleges

In November 2008, Georgia state Sen. Seth Harp, a republican, proposed the merger of two of the state's historically black public universities with two predominantly white colleges. As chairman of the powerful Senate Higher Education Commission, Harp argued that the merger of black Savannah State University with Armstrong Atlantic University in Savannah and that of black Albany State with two-year Darton College in Albany would help the state reduce a looming deficit in the university system.

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