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The University of Texas at Austin has quietly terminated 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 increase the number of black and Hispanic faculty members from 84 in 1987 to 187 today by supplementing salaries and...
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