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COLLEGE PARK, Md.--The director of the Office of Minority Student Education at the University of Maryland resigned last month, charging that the administration refused to support programs for minorities.
J. Muruku Waiguchu, who is the third Black official to leave a post at the office in the last two years, said administrators lacked a committment to recruit minority students and failed to retain those already on campus.
Saying that Blacks face a "plantation mentality on this campus," Waiguchu particularly objected to the lack of administrative support given his plan to establish minority advisement programs within academic departments.
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