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Download full textWestern Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Boulder, CO. – 1987
Recommendations presented to the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas represent both an assessment of the demographic and educational challenges faced by these states, in which minority populations will become the majority in the foreseeable future, and a call for action to deal with these challenges. The report is the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Blue Ribbon Commissions, Diversity (Student)
Peterson, Ray E. – 1996
This handbook provides public libraries with a source of hints, ideas, and suggestions to increase the diversity of their personnel in a non-discriminatory manner and with equality in personnel policies. The guide includes the following sections: (1) Why This Handbook?; (2) Getting Started; (3) Policy Statement--creating a policy, examples, and…
Descriptors: Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Labor Turnover, Library Personnel
Ladd, Joan; Rockwell, Connie – 1993
During the fiscal year 1992-1993, the Fort Collins Public Library (Colorado) conducted a project that involved the recruitment of tutors and adult learners, public awareness, training, and collection development. The project served a community of over 200,000 people, and had a target population of the local minority population, with an emphasis on…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Federal Programs
Levis, William; And Others – 1976
The Colorado Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigated the accessibility of the legal profession to minorities and women in Colorado and the difficulties encountered by minorities and women at the professional education level and in the bar examination. Local and national statistics were provided by the American Bar…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Admission (School), Affirmative Action, American Indians
Muldrow, William; And Others – 1976
During spring 1975, the Colorado Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigated four main areas where minorities and women traditionally encountered obstacles because of their minority status and/or sex: academic preparation at the preprofessional level and recruitment to a medical center, admission to medical school,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Admission (School), American Indians
Colorado State Library, Denver. – 1993
The Committee on Library Services to Ethnic Populations of the Colorado Council on Library Development was charged with developing a comprehensive plan to address library services for the increasing ethnic/culturally diverse populations in the state of Colorado and with identifying possible funding sources to implement the plan. In addition, the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks
