January 15, 1999

U. of Texas at Austin Ends Minority-Hiring Program

By JEFFREY SELINGO

The University of Texas at Austin has quietly ended a $300,000-a-year program aimed at recruiting minority professors, out of concern that the program could be barred by a court ruling that led the state to stop using racial preferences in admissions.

The Target of Opportunity program, which was created in 1987, helped to more than double the number of black and Hispanic faculty members over the last decade by

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