This report provides an in-depth look at student enrollments as compiled for the College Plan of Compliance to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Data from the Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College Student Enrollment History, 1973-1975, were utilized in analyzing race and sex of enrolled students during this period. Analysis revealed that…

The 1974 Survival Week Program was an orientation program designed for entering minority and economically disadvantaged students at the University of Texas at Austin. The major purpose of the program was to assist the participants in acquiring the knowledge and skills for academic, financial, emotional, and social "survival" in a complex…

This book examines the issue of access to the mass media, addressing the specific problems encountered by Chicanos in using television, radio, newspapers, and books to express their viewpoints. Chapter 1 describes the Mexican-American community in socioeconomic, geographic, demographic, and political terms. Chapter 2 explores the Mexican-American…

This report evaluates the Civil Rights activities of seven federal agencies with fair housing responsibilities. It is the second of a series of six reports to be issued by the Commission on Civil Rights describing the structure, mechanisms, and procedures utilized by the federal departments and agencies in their effort to end discrimination…

This short pamphlet provides brief descriptions of the history (including population served), mission, achievements, and future plans of the Office of Child Development since its creation in 1969. (ED)

In this speech, the author examines and traces past and present treatment of minorities in textbooks. The issue of whether textbooks should and do adequately represent the real world of minorities is emphasized. In the past, when publishers either omitted minorities from books or made misleading statements in textbooks about minorities, textbooks…

Sources and type of data concerning minority groups and women are listed in an effort to assist employers and institutions of higher education. Excerpts and statistics from various sources are presented. Reproduced from best available copy. (MJM)

The contents of this concept paper examining the roll of the mass media in the socialization of minority groups in America include an examination of the major literature dealing with the socialization of minority groups, a discussion of subculture orientation to minority socialization, consideration of the theories of ethnocentrism and their…

The Rutgers University Career Opportunities Program (GCOP) was designed to give graduate opportunities to otherwise excluded groups. Presently the program requires 60 credit hours of college from applicants, although a baccalaureate degree is not required. Almost without exception GCOP students are non-white and poor, and the program often…

Compiled to provide access to some of the latest resource material, research findings, and/or developments in education relative to higher education for Mexican Americans, this bibliography contains 22 citations and abstracts which appeared in "Resources in Education" (RIE) from the January 1972 through the March 1975 issues. The bibliography also…

Cause for alarm and need for remedial action is seen in the substantial and continuing increase in racial isolation in New York State schools. This cleavage which exists in other industrialized Northern states, border states and certain cities in the South is responsible for general social unrest as well as racial riots in the high schools. The…

The research reported in this paper was conducted to assess the effect, if any, of school desegregation, as it occurred in 1966 in Riverside, California, on the speech habits and abilities of the children involved, and to assess the implication of these effects in relation to other psychological factors. Frequency count methods and California…

This study is the third in a series to assess the relationship between educational criteria other than grades and the Washington Pre-College (WPC) test battery. Five hundred and ninety-seven returned questionnaires from Seattle-area schools provided post-high school educational criteria to be correlated with WPC test scores and high school grades.…

This report compares the characteristics of Indian American new court commitments with the characteristics of Negro, Mexican-American, and white new court commitments during the same period of time. A total of three categories of individuals was examined, juveniles, youth, adults. The populations used are not representative of the ethnic groups in…

There are many barriers to equal access in higher education: finances, selective admissions policies, race, and geography. Though some intensive efforts have been made to recruit minority students, the situation is not much better now than it was 20 years ago. The American higher education system has grown rapidly, but the demands on education…