Social Engineering

Pace J. McConkie is a civil rights lawyer and a professor at Morgan State University. He is a native of Utah.

Pace has been a recipient of the NAACP Attorney of the Year award. He is the director of the Center for Civil Rights in Education, which is located at Morgan State University.[1]

Pace has served as assistant attorney general of Maryland and as a counsel for the NAACP.[2] As assistant attorney general, McConkie opposed the starting of an MBA program at Towson University that would compete against Morgan State University.

As a young man, Pace was a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in New Zealand. McConkie has also served as president of the Annapolis Maryland Stake of the LDS Church.

1954 Brown vs. Board of Ed. Education must beprovided to all in equal terms.

1964 Civil Rights Act, title 6, any program receiving federal money must be clear of discrimination.

What is he working on:

Make sure all students are put on "college track" not "school to jail track".

Stop tracking. If a child is put in one slow track, he is usually in more than one low tracks.

Minority students with same test scores as whites are more likely to be put in low tracks.