This practice brief is one of a series highlighting key practices undertaken by some of the many successful Building Engagement and Attainment for Minority Students (BEAMS) schools during the project's five years of data collection and action plan implementation. These practice briefs accompany a monograph that details the process BEAMS…

The results of this study suggest that if the value of the education received at predominantly Negro colleges is slight, undoubtedly there are a number of white colleges that are equally ineffective. (CK)

Reports a survey of a sample of 1006 black students in three states; the variables under investigation included academic achievement, attitude toward science, high school influence, family influence, college influence, family background, and racial integration of high school. (JM)

The influence of attendance at predominantly Black and predominantly White colleges on Black students' early status attainment was assessed with a national sample of Black men and women. College race had trivial effects on Black male attainment and modest positive impacts on Black female educational attainment and occupational status. (Author/MLW)

A survey was undertaken to discover reasons for the failure of the average Negro premedical student to reach the fifteenth percentile on medical aptitude tests. Curriculum offerings, personnel, physical facilities and equipment for administering a premedical program at 15 accredited colleges are examined. In addition, an analysis is provided of…