April 29, 2005

Education Researchers Discuss How to Learn From Federal Program That Increased Minority Science Majors

By DAVID GLENN

Just over a decade ago, two federal agencies began a program designed to increase the number of African-American, Latino, and American Indian students who earned degrees in science, engineering, and mathematics.

Since 1994 the agencies have granted nearly $100-million to six colleges and universities whose students are primarily members of those minority groups, and all six have sharply increased the number of science majors they graduate.

The question now is how to sustain