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…

This report analyzes discrimination experienced by overseas Indians in the United States, concentrating on those Indians who are listed in biographical dictionaries. Discrimination is reported to exist especially in administrative positions. Despite this, it is concluded that most Indians in the United States, perhaps because of their awareness of…

The extent and effectiveness of access to higher education requires careful assessment. Especially for students who have been previously excluded from higher education for noneducational reasons, the experience of dismissal or withdrawal can be cruelly frustrating. Because the benefits of a college education are not gained by getting into college…

An approach to open admissions has been tested for the past five years at the City University of New York (CUNY). The open admissions policy was adopted in July 1969 by the Board of Higher Education, acting under intense political pressure after a spring of unrest and confrontation. After five years at CUNY, the ideal and practice of open…

This document reports on the results of the Inter-Agency Task Force project to promulgate guidelines and procedures to facilitate counseling services for minority group students in secondary schools that would maximize "other-race" application patterns among the colleges in Maryland. Among the items discussed in the deliberations of the task force…

In an address delivered to the Council of Administrators of Special Education (1974), specific problems and resources for change in the education of minority and poor children are examined. The author points out the high proportion of minority and poor children in special education classes and stresses the need to change educational practice so…

This report includes the papers presented at the Colluquium and the responses to these papers. The papers dealt primarily with the most critical and urgent problems involved in equalizing opportunity for the minority/poverty groups in the United States and include: "Educational Opportunity and the Organization of Higher Education," by Warren W.…

The need for quantitatively defined minority enrollment goals in graduate social work education is discussed. An overview of minority enrollment efforts, a summary of related federal and professional regulations, an exploration of the legitimacy of quantitative goals, and a formula that yields quantified minority enrollment goals are provided.…

Notes that implementation of the universalistic value of equality of opportunity favors minorities if they are relatively disadvantaged. Despite the time lag, recent statistical indicators suggest no great differences in education for current cohorts of persons classified by sex, age, or ethnic categories. (Author/AM)

While American minority groups comprise close to one fifth of the nation's total population, only one in every 15 first-year medical school seats is held by a black, a Mexican American, a mainland Puerto Rican or a Native American. (Author)

Consists of four symposium addresses: "Equity and Excellence in Education: A Comment" (Nathan Glazer); "Remarks on Equity and Excellence in Education" (Harold Howe II); "On Excellence and Goodness" (Sara Lawrence Lightfoot); and "When Excellence and Equity Complement Each Other" (Charles Willie). (CH)

State initiatives in the 1980s were first directed to quality improvement in higher education. The cumulative impact of these initiatives on minority participation and degree achievement, with declining federal affirmative action, caused many states to move equity to top priority. Recent studies of state-level initiatives suggest necessary…

A study of college presidents' goals for educational quality and educational access suggests a greater commitment to quality and supports a view of college leadership that is essentially reactive rather than proactive. External forces promoting attention to access issues appear stronger than internal forces. (Author/MSE)

Schooling is supposed to allow peripheral members of society to gain access to the mainstream. This is a myth for Latinos. American schools have promoted exclusion so that these students have developed strategies of survival and resistance. Civic inclusion means they would participate in the society fully while maintaining cultural traditions. (VM)

Focuses on the application of a targeted and regulated voucher system to the problems of racial segregation. Suggests that under a regulated voucher system, minorities (Chapter 1 students, in particular) have a better chance of obtaining both the racial balance and the school characteristics they desire. (Author/GC)