This book examines issues in education at the college and university level. It describes and analyzes the ways in which higher education must be reformed if it is to provide equal opportunities for all students to compete successfully in the decade of the nineties and beyond. This is the fourth in a series of essays produced by the Joint Center's Committee on Policy for Racial Justice, created in 1981 by a group of distinguished black scholars to reflect on the condition of blacks in American society.