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University of Texas's Use of Race In Student Admissions Survives ...


US Supreme Court in 4-3 vote upholds affirmative action at ...

Most students are admitted to the University of Texas through a scheme that guarantees slots to Texans who graduate in the top 10% of their high ...

Will the Rodriguez family's college dreams survive the end of ...

Several said that they would not have such data available even internally until after the admissions cycle wraps up next year. Some have cited ...

Affirmative Action Stands Victorious After the Supreme Court Ruling ...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a race-conscious admission program at the University of Texas, Austin.

From Bakke to Fisher, evolution of affirmative action cases | AP News

She sued for discrimination, claiming the school's policies gave certain minority students a significantly greater chance of admission. The ...

The evolution of affirmative action cases, from Bakke to Fisher - PBS

The Supreme Court said in a 5-4 decision that the law school's admissions policy, which considered race as one factor in admissions, was not ...

History | The University of Texas at Austin

Twice in the years since Sweatt, UT has gone to bat for the right of universities to affirmatively consider race in admissions. In both the Hopwood case in ...

U.S. Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action in Higher Education

Nearly a decade ago, SFFA brought cases against Harvard and UNC alleging these universities' use of race as a factor in college admissions ...

Results of Texas's Experiment in Increasing College Diversity | NBER

Guaranteeing admission to a flagship state university to the top 10 percent of high school graduates raised enrollment of economically disadvantaged students ...

Hopwood v. Texas: The Beginning of the End for Racial Preference ...

Texas,' the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the University of Texas ("UT") School of Law's admissions program, which gave preference to African ...

Did the Supreme Court Just Admit Affirmative Action is about Racial ...

The majority opinion in Fisher v. Texas, which upheld the affirmative action policy of the University of Texas, marks a turning point in the long controversy.

Will Affirmative Action In Texas Survive Its Endless Constitutional ...

enrollment among African American and Latino students at Texas universities). ... university's use of race conscious admissions). 30. The ...

Seven Pressing Questions Following the Supreme Court's ...

The Supreme Court's landmark decision ending the use of race as a factor in university admissions has coincided with a broader set of ...

Affirmative Action Decision: Can I Talk About Race in My College ...

The conservative-led US Supreme Court ruled today that colleges and universities can no longer consider race as a factor in their admission processes.

Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of ...

Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard: Supreme Court holds that the race-based admissions programs of two colleges ...

Affirmative Action Is About to Face a Judicial Assault

University of Texas, the court upheld race-sensitive admissions policies at the University of Texas–Austin on a 4–3 vote. Justice Anthony ...

Supreme Court rules against affirmative action - Inside Higher Ed

The US Supreme Court declared Thursday that the admissions systems used by Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill illegally ...

Grutter v. Bollinger - Wikipedia

The school admitted that its admission process favored certain minority groups, but argued that there was a compelling state interest to ensure a "critical mass ...

The Supreme Court is poised to reverse affirmative action

... University of Texas at Austin's use of race-conscious admissions. The suit led to two Supreme Court decisions, each following a victory for ...

Cheryl Hopwood court case (Admission University Texas law school)

Arguing afirmative action - Two applicants from the same school with the same grades, one will be preferred based on race.

case: Fisher v. UT Austin - Legal Defense Fund

The University of Texas race-conscious admissions police came under scrutiny against a historical backdrop of UT's history of exclusion of Black students, and ...