This publication offers an overview of the state of diversity in graduate education and considers the racial and ethnic makeup of the nation's faculty. It then offers recommendations for how to improve graduate education of students of color. The monograph is designed to help faculty, administrators and policy makers by offering strategies that might be utilized to enable more graduate students of color to assume positions in the professoriate. The recommendations are based on a three-year study conducted within the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at the University of Southern California. Its intent is to add to the ongoing discussion about how to improve the academy in general, and how to increase the presence of scholars of color in postsecondary institutions in particular. The monograph presents background, baseline data, and strategies for improving diversity in graduate education. It also contains a foreword, acknowledgements, annotated bibliography, references, and an appendix showing author profiles. (Contain 5 tables.)