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Article: The enforcer: an interview with Raymond C. Pierce. (civil rights chief at US Dept of Education)(Interview)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- July 24, 1997
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In a span of nearly four years, Raymond C. Pierce, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education, has supervised some 600 civil rights compliance reviews of school districts across the nation. His portfolio in higher education has included managing policy development on issues ranging from gender fairness in intercollegiate athletics to race-targeted scholarships to higher education desegregation.
Currently, attorneys in the Office For Civil Rights are negotiating with Ohio officials to bring the state into civil rights compliance over its support of the ailing, historically-Black Central State University in Cleveland. ...