October 15, 2004

A Hospitable Atmosphere for Minority Students

To the Editor:

David Glenn's "Minority Students Fare Better at Selective Colleges, Researchers Say" (The Chronicle, September 3) ignores a powerful force affecting graduation rates. During my 15 years as president of Ramapo College of New Jersey, I came to realize how important campus culture and normative values are for retention and graduation rates.

Many relatively nonselective institutions have a campus culture that encourages nontraditional students to go at their own

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