Veteran Administrators
Sidebar: MINORITY SCIENCE EDUCATION RESOURCES
"Taken as a whole, I would give the enterprise an average grade," comments Luther Williams, assistant director for education and human resources at the National Science Foundation. "That's because a small group [of programs] that are really quite effective are diluted by a large pool that are not quite as effective. But I'm really quite encouraged because, in the last five or six years, most supporters of these programs have moved to a higher level of accountability." Williams is referring to a new push by public and private funders for programs to achieve measurable results in recruiting and retaining minorities.
Other factors that experts say are proving to be important ingredients to success in these programs are involving whole educational communities and focusing on transitions between stages in the educational process. Inherent in conducting these proj-ects, they stress, is the need to view ...
