This conference proceedings monograph presents 20 papers describing initiatives that deal with the recruitment and retention of minorities in education. Papers have the following titles and authors: (1) "Recruitment and Retention of Minority Scholarship and Grant Recipients: Identifying Successful Models" (Teresa Unseld); (2) "An Early Intervention Model...Addressing Academic, Social, and Identity Issues that Affect the Advancement of African-American Students" (Anona P. Smith); (3) "Assessing an Afrocentric Approach to Mentoring" (Gwendolyn Webb Johnson; Clara Y. Young); (4) "Minorities Interested in Teaching Conference: A Response to the Shortage of Minority Teachers" (Patricia J. Larke and others); (5) "Out in the Breeze" (Darnell Jones); (6) "Assessing Student Communication Skills for the 90's Workplace: A NASA Case Study" (Karen Webb); (7) "A Collaborative Approach to Recruiting and Retaining Minorities in Teacher Education" (Brenda Pitts Haynes); (8) "Why the Disappearance of Afro-American Educators?" (Evelyn Blanch); (8) "Minority Teacher Recruitment and Retention in Early Childhood Exceptional Education" (Toni Jones, Lee Allen); (9) "Training Teachers for Diversity: A Model for Preparing and Retaining Minority Student Teachers" (Norvella Carter); (10) "Retention of African American Students in Higher Education" (Patricia Dardaine-Ragguet and others); (11) "Education and Corporate America: Policies and Practices that Impact the Recruitment and Retention of Minorities in Education" (Anne Dowling); (12) "Public School/University Partnerships: A Descriptive Assessment" (Glen Allen Doston, Samuel Hylton Bolden); (13) "Minority Mentoring--Can We Read Between the Numbers?" (Hugh P. Martin, Margaret Miller); (14) "Developing an Effective Collaborative Model for Recruitment and Retention of Minority Teachers in Texas Higher Education" (Emmanuel Nwagwu, Irvine Epps); (15) "Minority Recruitment Initiatives of the South Carolina Center for Teacher Recruitment" (Jacqueline Stanley, Terita Gusby-McCauley); (16) "Recruiting for a Better Tomorrow" (Betty Cox, Flora C. Hopkins); (17) "Pump It Up: Mathexcels--Increasing Minority, Appalachian, and Female Students" (Alan Zollman, Michael Freeman); (18) "Training Ethnically Minority Teachers: Performance Assessment of Graduate Projects at Illinois State University and Northeastern Illinois University" (Miryam Assaf-Keller, Rita Brusca); (19) "Abstract Premises" (Cornell Thomas); and (20) "A Study of the Relationship Between Noncognitive Variables and Performance on the Pre-Professional Skills Test" (Carol Maurice McClain). (LL)