Excerpt from Revitalizing Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions Education for Minorities and the Disadvantaged: A Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions Dean's Forum on Issues and Strategies; Final Report, August 1987 During the next few decades, the need for educating minority and disadvantaged students in pharmacy and allied health professions will continue to increase in importance. In the United States, public schools are heavily enrolled with minority students. Minority enrollment in public schools averaged 27 percent in 1980. During that year, minority public school enrollment for a few States and Washington, D.C., far exceeded the average: the District of Columbia, percent; Hawaii, 75 percent Mississippi and New Mexico, over 50 percent; California, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Texas, more than 40 percent; and Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New York, and North Carolina, in excess of 30 percent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.