Despite drastic improvement, the percentage of minority students enrolling in higher education and attaining degrees still lags significantly behind that of white students. So how can you attract and retain these students to provide the diversity and enrollment boost your institution needs? Gain the recruiting advantage with field-tested techniques in More Than Just Talk: Proven Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Minority Students.

Conveniently divided into separate sections on recruitment and retention, this concise pamphlet details proven strategies used by institutions around the country and then provides helpful tips on how to implement them. From training current counselors on ways to support minority students to encouraging alumni to become mentors, you discover low-cost ways to retain minority students who are struggling.

Plus, you get specific strategies on how to: partner with high schools to recruit minority students; provide culture-specific support through customized courses; diversify your faculty so minority students will have role-models on campus; understand the cultural differences of students from working class backgrounds; help low-income students shoulder the high cost of textbooks; and much more!

And, a resources section gives you details on other print resources, associations and Web sites available to help you create a comprehensive program to recruit and retain minority students.