Race was a factor in Black professor’s failed hiring, Texas A&M department head says

The Academic Building on the Texas A&M University campus on March 26, 2018. (Credit: Shelby Knowles for The Texas Tribune)

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A Texas A&M University department head involved in the failed efforts to recruit a Black journalism professor said Friday that then-President M. Katherine Banks interfered in the hiring process and that race was a factor in university officials’ decision to water down her job offer.