This volume presents findings and recommendations for increasing minority teacher recruitment and retention through policy change at seven colleges of teacher education in Florida. The seven institutions of higher education have formed a consortium known as the Florida TEAM (Teacher Education for America's Minorities) project. Its goal is to work within the teacher education systems at these seven institutions over a 6-year period (1990-1996) to increase the number of certified minority teachers in Florida's schools. A section of the report on recruitment covers barriers to recruitment of African Americans to the profession, promising practices, and policy implications at the legislative and institutional level. A section on admissions looks at barriers to African Americans in testing and financial aid, promising practices in these areas, and legislative and institutional policy implications. A section on retention covers barriers to minorities in the form of lack of support, overt racism, and faculty issues. Promising practices in the area of retention include academic student support, social student support, and faculty involvement. This section closes with a discussion of legislative and policy implications. A section on field based support for minority teachers discusses certification testing, job search, on-the-job support, and professional development, including promising practices and policy implications. A short section discusses advancing the action agenda. An appendix provides graphics of TEAM university locations and teaching assignment locations, and a contact list of the seven institutions, their coordinators and deans, and the director of the Center for the Study of Teaching and Learning. (Contains 58 references.) (JB)