September 4, 1998

To Help Minority Students, Raise Their Graduation Rates

CLIFFORD ADELMAN

By CLIFFORD ADELMAN

Now that some states have banned traditional methods of affirmative action, college administrators and state legislators are looking for other ways to maintain or increase minority enrollments at selective public colleges and universities. The new approaches include abolishing the use of standardized tests in the admissions process (proposed in California), offering automatic admission to students in

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