13. Cross-cultural Alliances: Can We All Get Along? The formation of the Alliance for Equity in Higher Education has helped raise expectations among minorities in higher education that coalition politics will serve the needs of minority students. The Alliance opens up the possibility for greater cooperation among Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans in the national higher education arena.
14. What Will Become of ACE's Office of Minority affairs? Now that the American Council on Education's vice president of the Division of Access and Equity Programs, Hector Garza, has left the association on a leave of absence, what will happen to ACE's Office of Minorities? Will the office, which is responsible for publishing the influential Annual Status Report on Minorities in Higher Education, maintain a similar, higher, or less visible pofile within the organization? And who will be selected to fill the position in Garza's absense?
15. Badillo and the Big Apple: With Herman Badillo taking over as the head of the City University of New York Board of Trustees, a lot of changes are expected from New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's ally. Badillo's board has already ousted City College's president, Dr. Yolanda Moses, and the board's plan to eliminate remediation from the system's four-year institutions is well underway. Then there also is anxiety in the minority community that if suggestions from a recent report that was critical of CUNY are implemented, they will have an adverse impact on students of color.
— Compiled by Michele N-K Collison, Eric St. John, and Ronald Roach
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