Suggests ways to eliminate ability grouping in the schools, and explores new alternatives to improve schooling for all students. Specific guidelines are given for the development of academically and racially heterogeneous schooling. The elimination of grouping practices that deny equal access to education is a goal worth pursuing. (SLD)

Describes Prince George's Community College's Black and Minority Student Retention Programs, focusing on enrollment patterns, initial retention efforts, program objectives, support services provided, selection criteria for students, and the mentoring component. Traces program growth and presents evaluation results. (DMM)

Describes a study that analyzed advertisements and the pools of applicants for supervisory positions in academic libraries in 1990 to determine the extent to which affirmative action and equal employment opportunity guidelines have affected recruitment and promotion of women and ethnic minorities. Opportunities for internal promotion are also…

Explores mentoring functions that senior women provided to juniors in academe, and identifies limitations on female mentoring. Interviews with 24 women in administrative positions indicate that senior women favor career mentoring and provide less psychosocial support. Recommendations are made for academic institutions interested in using mentoring…

Explores the political and social reasons behind the denial of affirmative action at the University of California and analyzes the probable impact and human rights effects of the policy. Because the state has not allocated sufficient funds to improve elementary and secondary education for Blacks and Latinos, their numbers will inevitably decline…

Although necessary for a diversified student body, minority teachers are underrepresented due to a lingering resistance to integration efforts, unappealing classroom conditions, salary issues, and culturally biased professional exams. Equitable placement procedures, incentives, competitive salaries, mentoring programs, subject-area recruitment,…

Semistructured interviews with four African-American women serving as university president or provost examined their qualifications, past mentors, racial or gender factors affecting their position, career impediments, experiences with nonsupportive supervisors, reasons for scarcity of African-American women administrators, educational equity and…

In an interview, Yolanda T. Moses, president of the City University of New York's City College, discusses a variety of issues concerning black higher education and her institution, including the challenges facing the college, the university's image, academic standards and admissions requirements, financial support, affirmative action, her personal…

Survey of admission directors at 12 medical schools with the largest underrepresented minority (URM) populations found diversity in the makeup of admissions committees and weighting of quantitative and qualitative factors. Although no school gave URM status a specific weight, one added points to a diversity index used as a quantitative measure.…

This collection of articles includes such topics as: the shrinking number of white students at black colleges; the consequences of a nationwide ban on race-sensitive college admissions; a racially offensive Web site; reduction in overall crime rates at historically black colleges; black women dominating higher education; and Harvard Law School…

Discusses survey findings that show black academics are highly pessimistic in their view of the future of blacks in higher education. Reasons include the following: curtailment of federal support for black colleges over the next five years; continued built-in test bias against blacks; no improvement in campus race relations; and persistent racial…

The Supreme Court of the USA explains when universities may use race-based admissions policies without violating the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution. These rulings raise important ethical issues for universities that are presently using race as a consideration in their admissions decisions. This paper discusses some of the ethical…

This publication sets forward the California State Postsecondary Education Commission's historical and present perspective on educational equity in California higher education and was prompted by Governor Wilson's June 1, 1995 Executive Order to End Preferential Treatment and to Promote Individual Opportunity Based on Merit (Executive Order…

Parkland College, in Illinois, has taken a proactive approach to responding to the multicultural and international challenges facing all community colleges. The action has been spurred by national indicators that suggest that the nation's workforce is becoming older, is being comprised of more female members, is including more members from…

The 1954 Supreme Court decision in the case of "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas" provided the legal basis for equal educational opportunity. More than 40 years after the decision, equal opportunity, equal access, and affirmative action remain issues of intense debate. This book offers essays by 23 prominent voices in…