For more than 40 years, there has been a concerted national effort to promote diversity among the scientific research community. Yet given the persistent national-level disparity in educational achievements of students from various ethnic and racial groups, the efficacy of these programs has come into question. The current study reports results…

Knowing the economic challenges young fathers without postsecondary education face in providing for their families, New York City's Young Men's Initiative launched a fatherhood program housed in LaGuardia Community College in spring 2012. The CUNY Fatherhood Academy (CFA) aims to connect young fathers to academic and employment opportunities while…

Knowing the economic challenges young fathers without postsecondary education face in providing for their families, New York City's Young Men's Initiative launched a fatherhood program housed in LaGuardia Community College in spring 2012. The CUNY Fatherhood Academy (CFA) aims to connect young fathers to academic and employment opportunities while…

Ethnic minority students traditionally pursue degrees and careers in the food and agricultural sciences at rates lower than their non-minority counterparts. To help improve upon this situation, the Food and Agricultural Sciences Institute (FASI) was created to expose academically talented high school students to opportunities within the food and…

In October 1970, the commission published its first of three across-the-board evaluations of the Federal Government's effort to end discrimination against American minorities. In February 1972 the commission chairman and the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) agreed that the commission would provide OMB with a summary of Federal…

Describes the first phase of the Urban Opportunity Program, which has studied the choices that determine lifetime opportunity for the poor and changes in the performance of urban markets and institutions that have historically supported opportunity. Characteristics of U.S. cities and future directions for the program are discussed. (SLD)

The Career Opportunities Program (COP), established under Title V of the Education Professions Development Act of 1967, was implemented in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1970 through 1975. It served low-income persons, primarily blacks, who had no other means to enter the teaching profession. The primary project goals were to attract capable…

The Ethnic Student Services coordinated and assisted the Minority Graduate Recruiter Visitation Program which was conducted during the Fall Semester, 1974 at the University of Texas at Austin. The major purpose of the program was to assist minority students in expanding their awareness of graduate and professional school opportunities as part of…

The Career Opportunities Program (COP) has been operating in the Hartford, Connecticut Public Schools since the summer of 1970. It is a project federally funded under the Educational Professions Development Act. In brief, the program provided the funds for Hartford paraprofessionals to further their formal education. The education provided these…

While recounting some of the flaws of presentday government systems, shows that by and large modern merit systems are beginning to move to rectify past inequities toward minorities. (DM)

The D.C. School Choice Incentive Act created the first private kindergarten-through-grade-12 school-choice program supported by federal funds. The program was named the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP). The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) was asked to assess the (1) accountability mechanisms governing the use of…

MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement) is a program designed to increase the number of underrepresented ethnic groups in professions related to mathematics, engineering, and the physical sciences. This paper describes and evaluates the MESA program at Jarama High School, Phoenix (Arizona), using informal interviews and…

The authority, function, activities and major recommendations of the National Advisory Council on Equality of Educational Opportunity (NACEEO) are described in this report. Recommendations adopted by the Evaluation Task Force were: (1) that studies be undertaken to provide more information about the processes involved in increasing achievement…

In its 1971 report, the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) evaluates its efforts and accomplishments in the following 4 areas: (1) application of compliance and enforcement measures to assure equal access for all citizens to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs, (2) evaluation of program participation data to monitor progress in…

A study of responses to affirmative action at a large university revealed that using estimates of the minorities available at prestige schools led to smaller departmental hiring goals, and that once such goals were met the subsequent pursuit of minorities was abandoned. Recommendations are derived from the findings. (JT)