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


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

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decided this week that the University of Texas's consideration of race as a factor among ...

University of Texas's New Admissions Process Survives Race Suit

University of Texas at Austin should no longer face claims over its process for accepting undergraduate students because the school stopped considering race or ...

Fisher v. University of Texas | Oyez

The University of Texas' use of race as a consideration in the admissions process did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Fisher v. University of Texas | Oyez

The university argued that its use of race was a narrowly tailored means of pursuing greater diversity. The district court decided in favor of the University of ...

What the ruling on race-conscious admissions will mean for Texas ...

But the court has largely sided with universities and supporters who argue that considering race in admissions is a way to increase student ...

Race and Ethnicity in Admissions - UT News

University of Texas, which consisted of two cases (2013 & 2016) that went before the U.S. Supreme Court and resulted in a ruling that UT's limited use of race ...

Fisher v. University of Texas: Considerations Of Race In Admissions ...

In Fisher v. University of Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court left intact the core principle, embodied in its earlier decisions, that college and ...

Fisher v. University of Texas - Ballotpedia

"Whether the Fifth Circuit's re-endorsement of the University of Texas at Austin's use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions decisions can be ...

Supreme Court upholds University of Texas affirmative-action ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday reaffirmed that the value of creating a diverse student body allows university officials to consider race in making admission ...

In Fisher, affirmative action survives again - Brookings Institution

In Fisher v. Texas, (Fisher 2), handed down on Thursday, race-conscious affirmative action once again survived a constitutional challenge by the skin of its ...

Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin | Supreme Court Bulletin

UT argues that its use of a holistic admissions process, considering race as one factor for admission, increases student-body diversity and ...

Supreme Court Upholds Consideration of Race - Inside Higher Ed

University of Texas at Austin, related to features unique to that university. But other parts of the case will likely apply to admissions and ...

Fisher v. University of Texas (2016) - Wikipedia

The race-conscious admissions program in use at the time of petitioner's application is lawful under the Equal Protection Clause. The judgement of the Fifth ...

US supreme court upholds affirmative action at University of Texas

Justices rule 4-3 in favor of controversial admissions programme that considers race as a factor, in major victory for supporters of ...

Fisher v. Texas: Affirmative action at the University of Texas is ... - Vox

Colleges could only consider race in admissions if they can give a “reasoned, principled explanation” for wanting a diverse student body. · The ...

Fisher v. University of Texas | 570 U.S. 297 (2013)

A Caucasian, rejected for admission, sued, alleging that consideration of race in admissions violated the Equal Protection Clause.

Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, et al. | Supreme Court Bulletin

HAS UT CLEARLY ARTICULATED ITS COMPELLING INTEREST? Fisher argues that UT failed to demonstrate that its use of race in the admissions process ...

Analyses of Fisher v. Univ. of Tex. at Austin, 570 U.S. 297 | Casetext

11-345 (U.S. June 24, 2013), the Supreme Court held that a university admissions program using racial categories must survive “strict scrutiny” review. In other ...

Opinion | Affirmative Action Survives in Texas - The New York Times

... race as a factor in some of its admissions decisions ... The University of Texas automatically admits the top 10 percent of students ...

Fisher - Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Abigail Fisher brought this action against the University of Texas at. Austin,1 alleging that the University's race-conscious admissions program.