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ESTELA MARA BENSIMON has been a professor of higher education at the USC Rossier School of Education since 1995. She earned her doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her current research interests include equity and minority students, the use of inquiry approaches as a strategy for institutional change, and social action research. Previously she has written on academic leadership, women in higher education , and minority faculty. She is the founding director of the Center for Urban Education and conducts action research projects that focus on institutional change to improve minority student success in higher education . She is the president-elect of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. LETICIA TOMAS BUSTILLOS is James Irvine Foundation Fellow and PhD student in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California with an emphasis in higher education policy and administration . As a research assistant with the Center for Urban Education, she works on the Equity Scorecard Project, funded by the James Irvine Foundation , and the Equity for All Project, funded by the Lumina Foundation for Education and the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges. Her interests include researching issues of equity in remedial education in regard to African American and Latino students and their implications for law and policy in higher education. She previously worked in K-12 education as an elementary school teacher and technology coordinator. She received her AB from Columbia University in English. JORGE CHAPA is Professor and founding Director of Latino Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. From 1988 through 1999, Chapa was a faculty member of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. He also served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at 291 About the Contributors UT Austin for four years. In the first three years of his appointment the proportion of Latinos entering graduate programs increased by 25 percent and the African American proportion increased 15 percent. He served as an advisor to the U.S. Bureau of the Census from 1994 though 2002. His education includes a BA with Honors from the University of Chicago and an MA and PhD in Sociology and a separate MA in Demography from UC Berkeley. He has scores of publications reflecting his research focus on the low rates of Latino educational, occupational, and economic mobility, and on the development of policies to improve these trends. His edited book, Apple Pie and Enchiladas: Latino Newcomers in the Rural Midwest, was published in 2004 by the University of Texas Press. He is eager to begin research on maximizing minority higher education participation in the post-Grutter world. BRIAN K. FITZGERALD is Executive Director of the Business-Higher Education Partnership, a non-profit membership organization of leaders of American corporations, universities, museums, and foundations. The forum harnesses the talent and energy of its members to examine issues of national importance, develop recommendations, and advocate for implantation of these recommendations with federal and state officials, the corporate and academic communities, and the general public. The forum has initiated several major initiatives including math and science education, innovation, and global competitiveness. Prior to joining the forum, Brian directed a federal advisory committee that advised Congress on higher education and student financial assistance. PATRICIA GÁNDARA received her PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Gándara’s research interests are in equity and access in K-12 and higher education, the education of English learners and ethnically diverse populations. Current research projects include a study of peer and family influences on the formation of postsecondary aspirations of ethnically diverse, urban, and rural youth; the effectiveness of college access and early intervention programs for underrepresented students; and strengthening the academic pipeline for Latino, African American, and Native American students. Additionally, she serves as Associate Director of the University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute (LMRI). She also directs the LMRI Education Policy Center at UC Davis, which sponsors research and colloquia on policy issues in the education of English learners. SAUL GEISER is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and serves as research consultant to the Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools, the UC faculty committee charged with formulating admissions 292 Expanding Opportunity in Higher Education [35.172.193.238] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 14:07 GMT) policy. Dr. Geiser received his PhD in sociology at UC Berkeley and was formerly Director of Admissions Research for...