Ruth Parham is a resident of Houston, Harris County, Texas

had experience as a Financial Coach at both West and Coleman colleges, a master’s degree, and

the banking industry background required for the position. Despite being qualified for the

position, it was awarded to an unqualified Hispanic applicant. After she was overlooked for the

role, Ms. Jones was ultimately forced to resign as she was no longer able to advance at HCC. This

again, is a common theme at HCC. Qualified black applicants are routinely overlooked in favor

of less qualified white and Hispanic applicants. Eventually, they are forced to leave the school in

order to attain the position and compensation they rightfully deserve.

106. Stephanie Jones — Race discrimination: Pay disparity/Denied

promotion/advancement - Stephanie Jones has worked at HCC for 24 years in Communications

and as a Senior Systems Analyst. Joe Conway (White male) promised Ms. Jones a managerial role

when he took over the department, but the promotion never materialized. Rather, Ms. Jones was

used to train other non-black individuals that would ultimately be given the positions she was told

that she was being placed in. She was assigned responsibilities in the content management system

(CMS) which was a new system and was given no training. When she messed up a process, she

was reprimanded even though she had been untrained on the system by her manager. She had to

teach myself and learn by trial and error. Nevertheless, she began training others in Terminal Four

(T4),theWebContentApplicationwhichnowbecameoneofherresponsibilities.JoehadAndrew,

an Asian part-timer who was employed as a system admin. Andrew would sit in her training

sessions as an observer. After a few weeks of training, she heard Joe tell Andrew who was about

to apply for a full-time position as a web specialist to add on his resume, that he was a trainer

which he had never trained anyone for his resume and his application. Andrew did not implement

the training he only sat in as an observer. After Andrew got the job, Joe stopped Ms. Jones from

training and proceeded to make Andrew the trainer, but Andrew asked her to do the training