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Disturbed by the faltering pace of minority advancement in American life and by the discouraging decline of participation of minority individuals in higher education, the American Council on Education (ACE) Board of Directors convened a special meeting in February 1987 to consider how higher education could take a leadership role in rekindling the nation's commitment to the full participation of minority citizens.

One outcome of the ACE Board's deliberations was the development of the Commission on Minority Participation in Education and American Life, cosponsored by the Education Commission of the States. Former presidents Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter served as honorary co-chairs of a bipartisan commission of 37 prominent Americans from government, business and the nonprofit sector. In its report, One-Third of a Nation, the commission delivered an urgent message to the nation "that America is moving backward-not forward-in its effort to achieve the full participation of minority citizens in the life and prosperity of the nation. The Commission called for a re-dedication of all segments of society to "overcoming the current inertia and removing the remaining barriers to full participation of education and in all other aspects of American life.

The ACE Board also recognized that higher education's most important and productive efforts would b e centered on our own campuses. In the last decade we have lost momentum in our efforts to ensure that minority groups are fully represented, welcomed, and involved on our campuses. But this cannot result in an attitude of resignation and defeat. We cannot resign ourselves to anything less than success in creating a truly pluralistic campus. The injustice is too great for a democratic nation to condone; the costs are too high for all citizens. - from Amzon