A retired professor reflects on how little has changed at Texas’ flagship university since he first started teaching nearly 50 years ago.
If you are from Texas, everyone knows what university you are referring to, when you simply say,"The University." Just by using that designation, the topic is about the University of Texas at Austin, whether you are a star football player, a son or daughter of rich parents, or just a poor kid who happens to be academically talented and wants to go to one of the best universities in the country.
I graduated first in my pharmacy class at UT in 1968, served two years in the Army, went on to receive a Ph.D. in pharmacology in 1974, and accepted a faculty position at my alma mater in 1974. I thought I had made it. Before I ended my career at UT, I helped establish the first graduate program in toxicology in the state of Texas and was selected as the faculty advisor of the year for student organizations by UT's Ex-Students [Association]. Later I was elected president of the largest and most prestigious toxicology organization in the world for academic, government, and industrial toxicologists, the Society of Toxicology.
When I left the UT College of Pharmacy in 1996, there were two Mexican American Ph.D. professors on the faculty. When I returned to Austin, there is only one full-time professor; no progress has been made in the 50 years since I joined the faculty as one of those two Mexican American professors in 1974.
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