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Focuses on the efforts of college officials in Texas to recruit minority students. The 1996 Hopwood v. Texas decision which banned the use of affirmative action by Texas institutions; Use of an adversity index to increase the number of scholarships offered by Texas schools to minority students; Role of campus location in students' college choices; Insecurities of minority students who do not feel welcome at Texas schools.

Presents state higher education-related news for June 4, 1999. Appointment of Marshall Drummond, former president of Eastern Washington University, as chancellor of the Los Angeles (California) Community College District; Lawsuits charging discrimination and perpetuation of racial segregation at Texas Southern University; A panel's defense of affirmative action in higher education.

Presents brief articles pertaining to higher education in the United States. End of the University of Texas at Austin's program aimed at recruiting minority professors; Federal tax credits for students; Report that the University of Missouri at St. Louis may bar the Ku Klux Klan from sponsoring programs on the university's public radio.

Reports that students rallied to support affirmative-action programs at various universities in 1998. Low turnout for the event titled `National Days of Action to Defend Affirmative Action'; Largest rally held at the University of California at Berkeley; Comments from Bob Jensen, professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reports that a federal judge in Texas has refused to award damages to the white plaintiffs in an affirmative-action lawsuit filed against the University of Texas. The determination that the plaintiffs would not have been admitted to the University of Texas law school even if it had used a race-neutral admission process; Details of the decision in the trial known as Hopwood v. Texas.