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| Title | Summary statement regarding desegregating the University of Houston |
| Date | October 1969 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | ID 1985-005, Box 29, Folder 19 |
| Original Collection | President's Office Records |
| Digital Collection | University of Houston Integration Records |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/integ |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/special-collections |
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| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Page 1 |
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| Transcript | SUMMARY STATEMENT RE DESEGREGATING THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON The Board of Regents of the University of Houston has never felt it necessary, or appropriate, to issue a formal resolution "desegregating" the University or to attach any fanfare to the admission of Negroes or other minority groups to the student body, faculty or staff. Instead, the regents, in close consultation with the administration, began a broad study of how to achieve the admission and/or hiring of all qualified applicants without reference to race, creed, or color* As a result, Negro students were admitted to graduate programs in 1962 and at the undergraduate level a year later. Negroes were attending very few institutions of higher learning in the state or region at the time, and virtually no private universities because of extreme differentials in tuition and fees. Nevertheless, there were no problems connected with the admission and acceptance of black students at the University of Houston, and they have increased steadily in number since 1962. The rate of increase jumped most perceptibly in 1963, when the institution became part of the state system of higher education with a resulting six-fold decrease in tuition. The University of Houston has always had minority employees outside the faculty; the number and relative responsibility of these men and women has grown over the years. Along with most colleges and universities in America, the University has never been able to attract a substantial number of qualified Negro faculty members or administrators. In spite of the continuing short supply of, and increasing competition for, such persons, however, we have recruited considerably more of them in the past several years. October, 1969 A \ Al/ |