Minority and disadvantaged students.

Presents a speech by Magdalen Coughlin, president of Mount Saint Mary's College, delivered to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, Plenary Session of the 1989 Annual Meeting on February 2, 1989. Significance of higher education to economic, political and cultural life of the U.S. for minorities, immigrants and the disadvantaged; Assumptions involved in developing successful partnerships to improve the pre-collegiate education of minority students.