Dr. Haro began his professional career as an information scientist and research specialist, then moved to management, rising to become an Assistant Chancellor at U.C. Berkeley. He has worked and taught at several campuses of the University of California, the State University of New York, the University of Maryland, and the University of Southern California. He was director of research for the U.S. President’s Cabinet Committee on Opportunities for the Spanish Speaking during the Johnson and early Nixon administrations.

Dr. Haro was an American Council on Education Fellow in 1987-88, completed the Harvard University Institute for Educational Management in 1988, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Leadership Program in 1997, and was a Senior Fellow with the Mexican and American Solidarity Foundation in 1998.

A frequent contributor to the professional literature in several fields, he has published five monographs and over seventy articles, chapters, and reports. He is on the Board of Directors of College Kids, the Latino Issues Forum in San Francisco, and the University of California Alumni Association. He also led the team that developed the new California State University campus at Monterey Bay. During 1995, he was the Interim Director of the College Board’s State Services Office in Sacramento.

Dr. Haro is currently a professor at San Francisco State University and the Director of Research at the Cesar E. Chavez Institute for Public Policy. His most recent publication on challenges to affirmative action appeared in the Fall 1999 issue of On Target. His research focuses on Latinos and executive selection in colleges and universities and the public policy process in higher education.