Diversity on Campus: A Reassessment of Current Strategies1 |
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| Authors: | Grant B. Mindle Kenyon D. Bunch Carolyn Nicholas |
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| Affiliation: | Grant B. Mindle is Principal of general studies at Yavneh Academy of Dallas, Texas. His research interests include political theory and constitutional law. He is also serving as editor of Interpretation: The Journal of Political Philosophy.;Kenyon Bunch is Professor of Public Law and Judicial Politics at Fort Lewis College. He has been published in numerous political science journals and law reviews.;Carolyn Nicholas is a doctoral student at the University of North Texas. Her areas of scholarship and teaching are American government, public administration and political theory. |
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| Abstract: | The underrepresentation of minorities in higher education evokes a widely shared sense of urgency among educational policymakers. Allan Oster, president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, has described the persistent gap between minority and white participation rates as "[o]ne of the most pressing issues facing higher education today" (American Council on Education, 1988b, p. iv). Eliminating the gap and overcoming the other educational inequalities faced by minorities "is not an option, but a necessity; and the need is not eventual, it is immediate" (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990, p. 14). Failure to take timely and decisive action not only threatens the moral and intellectual integrity of higher education as a whole, but our nation's economic well-being (American Council on Education, 1988b, p. 1). As officials at Smith College so eloquently said, "[i]t is no exaggeration to say that the future of the nation and the future of higher education depend on the ability of the educational establishment to become more inclusive" (Smith College, 1989, preamble). |
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