"This book offers a wealth of insights on the experience of African American students at a leading university that no recitation of statistics could duplicate--before the students entered, while they were enrolled, and after they graduated. The varied personal accounts remind us never to regard any ethnic group as monolithic, while acquainting us with the special burdens that almost all black students experience in a predominantly white university. For anyone concerned with student affairs or affirmative action, this is a valuable, informative volume."

--Derek Bok, The 300th Anniversary University Professor                   John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University President-Emeritus Harvard University

"Technology and the Dream is a must read for anyone interested in effective recruitment and retention of underrepresented segments of our society at highly selective universities. University administrators, faculty, prospective students, parents, high school teachers, and college counselors can all benefit from this book. Descriptions from students of their individual experiences and real insight from key administrators separate this book from the simplistic, aggregated assertions about intelligence and motivation being published elsewhere."

--James I. Cash, Jr., James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean, Publication Activities Harvard Business School

"Harvard president Derek Bok once said that recruiting and promoting black faculty was like being confronted with a great block of inertia. Here, in the MIT story from Dr. Clarence Williams, is the best account so far of how and why established academic departments at another great university fail to hire or tenure even the most gifted black scholars and teachers."

--Theodore Cross, Editor                                                                                          The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education