Effort to save Cheyney University

Thursday, November 5, 2015
CENTER CITY (WPVI) -- Education activists are gearing up for an historic rally to save an historic Pennsylvania university.

Organizers gathered in Center City Thursday morning, 5 days before a planned protest in Harrisburg, where they'll call on lawmakers to save Cheney University.
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The nation's oldest historically Black university is facing deficits that could force its imminent closure.

This group says that's because of decades of financial discrimination at the state level.

A civil rights lawsuit was filed last year.
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