摘 要：在高等教育大众化发展的今天，少数民族学生接受高等教育权的问题受到人们越来越多的重视。少数民族高等教育问题与一国的政治、经济、文化都有密切的联系，它们的处理是否得当必然会在一定程度影响国家稳定与发展，因此绝不容忽视。

美国是当今世界各国中高等教育体系最为发达的国家。在其高等教育发展的过程中，美国对解决少数民族学生平等权问题付出了很多实践，其中最重要的手段之一就是通过立法解决不同历史时期所出现的少数民族高等教育权利问题。这一方法可以作为我国解决相关问题的借鉴。

本文将采用文献法与历史研究法对美国各历史阶段中影响少数民族高等教育平等权利的立法内容的变化发展进行论述与分析，得出美国在解决少数民族高等教育平等问题中的经验与对我国的启示。

文章正文的第一部分将简述美国少数民族高等教育的发展历史与相关教育立法内容的一些基本问题，之后根据高等教育的发展阶段理论将美国少数民族争取高等教育平等的历史发展划分为精英、大众化以及普及三个阶段，并分别对各阶段美国教育立法内容及其他相关法案对少数民族高等教育权利平等问题的影响进行论述，最后分析美国解决相关问题时的立法内容的特点与不足，综合我国当前少数民族高等教育发展现状与遇到的问题，得出美国在解决这一问题时对我国的启示。

关键词：少数民族，高等教育，教育平等，教育立法

The equality of minority in higher education of America—to the education legislation content point of view

Abstract：Now in the popularization of higher education today, the development of the minority students in higher education has received more and more attention. Ethnic minority higher education issues have a close contact with a country's political, economic, cultural, and how to deal with them properly is bound to affect the national stability and development to a certain extent, and therefore cannot be overlooked.

As one of the typical multi-ethnic country, the United States has paid a lot of practice to solve the problems of equal rights of minority students in higher education. Among them, the contents of education legislation keep changing during the history of the development of higher education of minorities, and have had a profound impact on their development. Follow the clues can provide some useful reference for our country to solve similar problems.

This paper will use literature method and case method. Following the clues of content of education legislation, the essay will make analysis and discus about the problems during the development history of the equal rights of ethnic higher education in America, and then summarize the experience of the US in solving these problems. At last, this essay will put forward suggestions on our country in protecting the equal rights of minorities in higher education.       

Keywords: minority, higher education, equal education, educate legislation.

（蔡兴繁 教育科学学学院教育史专业沈阳师范大学硕士学位论文）