Provides overview of current status of African-American male college students, focusing on the disparity in representation and accomplishment as compared to their female counterparts. Reviewed 6,765 students' survey responses to assess distinct needs. Recommends that student affairs practitioners be attentive to the underpreparedness and special…

From November 1989 to June 1990, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) conducted an individually administered assessment of a representative sampling of some 6,000 adults to determine the literacy skills of the 20,037,087 persons being served by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and Employment Service/Unemployment Insurance (ES/UI) programs,…

Based upon data collected throughout the U.S. in the spring of 1976 as part of the Survey of Income and Education, this report presents a socioeconomic and educational profile of Hispanic postsecondary students. Wherever relevant, the data are compared with data on all U.S. postsecondary students. A general overview presents characteristics of the…