Minority Faculty Recruitment Program Under Fire
EUGENE, Ore.
The University of Oregon is taking issue with an economics professor’s claim that a program developed to recruit more minority faculty members is illegal.
http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_7400.shtml
June 4th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
The Dallas County Community College District established a Visiting Faculty and Administrator’s Scholars Program September 1999. This ongoing program was designed to attract and bring into the Distirct’s work force minority and women faculty and administrators. The caveat concerning legal versus illegal is the fact that the program, while targeting minorities and women, is open to all who apply. While a number of caucasian faculty and administrators have been admitted to the program, the majority of the participants has and continues to be minority and women faculty and administrators. As a result, the District has increased and continues to increase the number of minority and women faculty in its full time permanent employment ranks moreso through this program than any of its other recruitment initiatives historically or otherwise. This is a Board approved initiative, supported by all hiring supervisors, faculty and staff. The program is unique and the only one like it in the U.S. or elsewhere. While there has been a number of replication efforts throughout the U.S., there is no equal to this program.