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...just about every college president's "to do" list these days is a resolve to recruit more minorities. Although a growing percentage of black students are finishing high school, black attendance in college is dropping. In 1985 only 26% of black high school graduates went on to college, down from 34% in 1976, a year when the figure was slightly above that of whites. While minority college enrollment expanded slightly between 1980 and 1986, the gain was mostly because of increased numbers of Asians and Hispanics, not blacks...
...reason for the desultory pace is that many public schools are failing to meet the needs of minority students well before they reach high school graduation, leaving them academically unprepared for college-level work. Also, some 38 states have toughened admissions standards for public universities, raising the hurdle that minorities must surmount...
...increase in crime included a 2.9% spurt in homicides, to a new high of 20,675. More than half the victims either knew or were related to their killers; only 12% were slain by strangers. Washington had a horrendous murder rate of 59.5 per 100,000 people, more than seven times the national average. Atlanta was the most crime-ridden city in the U.S. For all types of crimes, including thefts and arson, Atlanta led Fort Worth, Dallas, Seattle and St. Louis in the top five. Much maligned New York City was 15th in its overall crime rate and tenth...
...general have a lackluster record of attracting and holding minorities, a number of programs are starting to chip away at the problem. In some areas, college-public school partnerships seek to get minority students thinking about higher education at an early age and to nurture that goal through high school. "Once kids have the fever for college, you can do a lot of good," says Nathan Potts, principal of West Side High School in Newark, which was "adopted" by Ramapo College of New Jersey...
...white students," explains Claire Gaudiani, the school's president. Public school teachers select the students and accompany them to the campus for two weeks of classes and counseling. In order to maintain the students' interest in college, professors and minority alumni will correspond with them throughout high school and hold twice-yearly "reunions...