A survey of minority student recruitment and retention efforts in dental schools

What I have tried to do is to provide a way that we can look at overall recruitment and retention of our minority students. As you can see from the results of the survey, some of us are doing a lot, some not so much. About 10% of the colleges have many of the components of retention suggested within this schema. Some of us are seeing results of our efforts--with many of us reporting that the attrition of minority students is equal to less than that of majority students--yet many of us feel that much more can be done to improve the total environment for our minority students. You will recall the word used the most in your responses, "more", more of nearly everything. I am sure you join with me in looking forward to the presentations during our conference so that we may find ways to increase our efforts. We do not want in the future for either us or our students to again sound like Oliver Twist when he pleaded "Please Sir, I want some more".

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