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Dr. Daniel Jean often recounts with sadness the story of Robert Daniel Cuadra, an 18-year-old honor student from Paterson, New Jersey, who was planning to embark on a promising college [...]

For more than a decade, Florida A&M University and Howard University competed intensely to enroll the nation's top-testing Black college freshmen, regularly heralding their triumphs against the likes of Harvard [...]

Earlier in his career, Dr. Luther S. Williams spent nearly ten years as the only faculty member of color out of seventy in his department at Purdue University. The African […]

MIAMI -- During the past two months, Floridians have heard starkly different views on how Gov. Jeb Bush's 'One Florida' plan would affect minority enrollment in university admissions and participation [...]

Colleges and Universities in California and Texas Regroup, Rethink and Redouble Their Minority Student Recruitment Efforts HOUSTON -- Graduates of Worthing High School, a predominantly Black school here in the [...]

As high-school seniors begin to choose colleges in the coining months, officials at many public flagships nervously hope that their renewed outreach to Black students reverses steep and disappointing enrollment [...]

Fourteen years ago, when Dr. Shirley Collado was still a senior in high school, her college dreams were modest. The Brooklyn, N.Y., daughter of Dominican Republic immigrants aspired to be [...]

WASHINGTON At the top of the agenda for the annual meeting of the National Black Graduate Student Association, held in Washington at Howard University late last month, was a call [...]

Rural campuses, state demographics, and reports of racial incidents can all pose challenges HAVING GROWN LIP in Boston, Tito Jackson experienced culture shock during his first week at the University [...]

AUBURN, ALA. Black applicants to Auburn University are automatically admired if they meet minimum requirements, while students of other races with similar credentials often face further review before admission, school […]

ATLANTA Continuing the Board of Regents' efforts to increase the low numbers of African American males who attend college, University System of Georgia Chancellor Thomas C. Meredith announced recently the [...]

TUSCALOOSA, ALA. A Black student at the University of Alabama accepted a bid to a traditionally White sorority last month, a rare case in which the longstanding racial exclusivity of […]

ASHEVILLE, N.C. The lowest enrollment of Blacks in five years at the University of North Carolina at Asheville has forced changes in how the school recruits minorities. Chancellor James Mullen [...]

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. The University of Arkansas' Black Alumni Society has proposed that Chancellor John White hire an off-campus firm to determine whether Blacks are represented fairly at the university. [...]

KNOXVILLE, TENN. Under pressure to increase minority enrollment, the University of Tennessee will begin a new scholarship program this fall to attract Black students. 'This program is meant to make [...]

There has been a great deal of discussion over the past decade about the recruitment and retention of African American students. The intensity, if not the frequency, of these conversations [...]

* Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist Christian school known for its past policy banning interracial dating, is now recruiting minorities. The school in Greenville, South Carolina, dropped the controversial ban [...]