The following presentations were presented in a special plenary session on minority recruiting at the FAll 2011 TSAPS meeting in Commerce.

• The Need for New Leadership: Crisis in Texas Higher Education
  Richard Tapia, Rice University Professor, Maxfield-Oshman Professor in Engineering
  
  
• APS Minority Bridge Program
  Theodore Hodapp, American Physical Society, Director of Education and Diversity
  
  
• Building sustainable systems that support success of underrepresented students
  Eric Brewe, Dept. of Teaching and Learning and Dept. of Physics, Florida International University