Race and ethnicity

College participation rates for young adults are increasing for most demographic groups, but so are the gaps between some groups.

As enrollments at American colleges continue to soar, vaulting past the 17 million mark in fall 2002, students grow ever more likely to be black or Hispanic and female and to attend community colleges or for-profit institutions, according to the latest statistics from the U.S. Education Department.

Chapel Hill starts to see success with its program to enroll those at the lowest income levels.

Presidents say longstanding classroom practices may need to change if colleges are to succeed in educating more minority students.

A black female student is charged with sending threatening notes that led the university to evacuate minority students.

Wayne State professors attack plan to break up college focused on disadvantaged and minority students.

Report finds that programs for minority Ph.D. students are so afraid of legal and political challenges that they are broadening their missions.

New data document dramatic drop -- especially at public institutions -- in percentage of colleges that consider minority status in admissions.

Some multiracial students say they feel pressure to choose a single racial identity.

A new study documents huge changes that the loss of affirmative action would have at elite colleges -- for all but white students.