This project was designed to demonstrate an effective means of ameliorating the problem of severe underrepresentation of minority faculty members (black faculty members in particular) among active educational researchers in the United States. It sought to address this problem by increasing opportunities for selected faculty in the historically black institutions of the University of North Carolina to engage in educational research, and by increasing the awareness of senior academic officers at those institutions of the types of support faculty must have to conduct research. In addition, the project worked to strengthen a network of existing educational research partnerships among the participating universities, minority educational researchers at universities throughout the United States, and the educational research faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Project activities included selection of Educational Research Fellows, a mentorship program, seminars, workshops, and attendance at and participation in education conferences. Workshops focused on effective oral presentation of research findings, writing effective grant proposals and scholarly journal papers, advanced research methods, research use of microcomputers, and structural equation modeling. This final report describes project activities and project evaluation. Appendices contain a list of the Educational Research Fellows, program schedule for a project-sponsored conference, and an evaluation crosswalk document. (JDD)