The APA Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention, and Training seeks to promote creative transformation of psychology's educational pipeline (high school through postdoctoral and continuing education studies) in ways that will ensure that, in the near future, the proportion of psychologists who are people of color will dramatically increase, and all psychologists will demonstrate at least minimal multicultural competence in training, research, and practice issues. The Commission believes that actualization of this vision of our future will require all entities of organized psychology to demonstrate a fundamental commitment to diversity that is evidenced by:

• the strengthening of linkages among departments, schools, and programs of psychology with varying institutional missions and at all levels of the educational pipeline;

• the creation of educational and professional environments that are inclusive and where diversity is valued as integral to the pursuit of excellence and the vigor of psychology in the 21st Century;

• the infusion of multicultural considerations into all areas and procedures of psychological research, curriculum, training, and practice;

• the strengthening of individual efforts and organizational and institutional strategies for increasing the number of people of color who are recruited and retained in psychology's educational pipeline;