The policy statement of the 1982 Wingspread Conference on Postsecondary Programs for the Disadvantaged is presented. The conference examined the past decade of postsecondary education opportunity programs for disadvantaged and minority students and how the objectives of the programs should be pursued in the 1980s and beyond. Recommendations are presented concerning the following areas: (1) the need for quality education for all, including minority and disadvantaged students; (2) recognition of the interrelatedness of all levels of education, since efforts that improve achievement at the elementary and secondary levels increase the likelihood of success at the postsecondary level; (3) state and federal action in cooperation with postsecondary institutions to overcome the underrepresentation of minority students in many career areas and particularly at the postgraduate level and in the more prestigious and highly selective courses of study; (4) recognition of the experiences and effectiveness of postsecondary opportunity programs for minorities and disadvantaged; and (5) political action on the part of the educational community to respond to the fiscal and social crisis threatening equal educational opportunity. (SW)