Examined descriptive data from the Florida Department of Education to analyze the distribution of African Americans in programs for students with mild and moderate mental retardation. African American students were consistently over-represented in such classes, though there was much more equal racial distribution in classes for students with…

Aggregate occupational inequality between Black men and White men declined nationally in each decade between 1940 and 1980 as a result of Black migration out of the South in the 1940s and 1950s and to improvements in relative opportunities for Blacks in the 1960s and 1970s. Contains 41 references. (Author/SV)

African-American head coaches among the 112 Division I-A football institutions now number only five, which is attributed to the decline of affirmative action and related policy, and despite lobbying efforts of the Black Coaches Association. The National Collegiate Athletic Association is also working on the problem. The American Football Coaches…

Data on total undergraduate enrollments, scholarship athletes, football scholarship athletes, and men's basketball scholarship athletes, and percentage of each group that are African Americans, are tabulated for 245 institutions in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. (MSE)

Graduation rates of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I scholarship athletes have shown the first across-the-board decline since the Association began publishing rates in 1990. Much attention this year has focused on male basketball players; only 41% of those who entered college in 1991 graduated within six years. Many leave…

The findings of an analysis of first- through fourth-year students enrolled in the schools and colleges of optometry in 1975-76, conducted by the American Optometric Association, are discussed. Demographic, racial/ethnic background, sex distribution, socioeconomic, and financial resource characteristics of optometric students are described.…

Graduation rates of football players and men's and women's basketball players at National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I colleges have reached their lowest level in seven years, with fewer black athletes graduating than at any time since the mid-1980s. Eight universities graduated at least 90% of athletes enrolling between 1989 and…

Examines the relationship between student background, racial congruency, and college-level factors affecting academic performance of black male college students in predominately white compared to predominately black colleges. Questionnaire responses from 742 students demonstrate the differential effect of each of the 3 components and suggest a…

Data on higher education institutions producing the most master's, doctoral, and first professional degrees are presented by field of study and race/ethnicity of the degree recipient (white, African American, Hispanic, Asian American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Native American). Doctorate recipient rates for 1986-95 in science and engineering are…