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having problems
iring minorities for
r^xeeutive positions
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HOUSTON — The University of Houston, de-
ievows to hire more minorities for top jobs, has
\ I |< blades or Hisnanics in executive academic posi-
^ns and only a handful who are full professors.
UH is clearly not alone in struggling to
ange from an institution dominated by white
;nto one more reflective of society.
Bui UH leaders acknowledge that its diversity
oblems put the university at risk of becoming ir-
evai11 to two races that by 2000 will constitute
pliircls of new entrants in the work force.
“Wi ’re not where we would like to be in
. , Hof diversity,” UH Chancellor Alex Schilt
"OlStrdd tlie Houston Chronicle in Sunday’s editions.
“But we’ve had some success and the difficul-
s He’ve had have given us a resolve that I believe
I Hiable us to more successful in the future.”
school can only get more successful at
ating minorities in key leadership pdsitions.
In ihe past few years:
•five white men have been hired as deans.
•Sdiilt rejected a slate of three minority fmal-
:s vying to become the system’s lawyer. He re-
jeifd the search and hired a white male,
genpeel # Tlie board of regents bypassed the Hispanic
'■ Hhairman to elect a white chairwoman.
Hiilt points as successes to “my hires” of for-
jrlJH President Marguerite Barnett, who died in
59|, and UH-Downtown President Max Castillo,
■inorities say such gains are part of a record
Indies latlis mixed at best, considering that it was
’ Ht who changed President James Pickering’s
atus from interim to permanent last year.
The Latino Faculty Council and the Black
:acjership Network said they are mostly con-
:rrfcd about the school’s inability to lure mi-
orilies for even faculty posts.
■We need black deans because UH is such a
ean driven institution,” said Morris Graves; as-
Kilte director of the African-American Studies
rogram. “But we can’t get deans if we don’t
rst have more faculty members.”
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