An overview is provided of the discussion at the conference, as well as edited versions of the keynote address and nine commissioned papers prepared as background for the working sessions: "Achieving Quality and Equality" (Donald M. Stewart); "Financial Aid and Ethnic Minorities" (Jacob O. Stampen and Robert H. Fenske); "Minority Education Opportunities: Mixed and Qualified Messages of Recent Supreme Court Decisions" (Monique Weston Clague); "Demographic Facts and Educational Consequences in the Five Southwestern States" (Leobardo F. Estrada); "Minority Degree Achievement and the State Policy Environment" (Patrick Callan); "Four-Year College and University Environments for Minority Degree Achievement" (Patricia Crosson); "Facilitating Degree Achievement by Minorities: The Community College Environment" (Arthur M. Cohen); "Improving Black Student Access and Achievement in U.S. Higher Education" (Walter R. Allen); "Faculty Issues Affecting Minorities in Higher Education" (James E. Blackwell); and "Administrative Commitments and Minority Enrollments: College President's Goals for Quality and Access" (Robert Birnbaum). References are provided for individual papers. (KM)