The obstacles to aid-and-access research on minority students include: inadequate models of the decision process, heterogeneous subpopulations, and the momentary equality of 1977. Until research yields qualitative knowledge of why similarly situated teenagers make different decisions about college, analysis of minority aid-and-entry decisions will…

Articles and excerpts on diversity in higher education, appearing in issues of the journal from 1969 through 1991, are reprinted here. Topics addressed include higher education's benign neglect of racism, black education, black faculty, ethnic studies (black, Asian American), American Indian students, women's education, and Hispanic American…