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Horner, Jeff S. – School Business Affairs, 1998
In March 1996, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated the University of Texas School of Law's admission policy in "Hopwood v. State of Texas." The state failed to show a compelling government interest for the affirmative-action admissions policy favoring Mexican-American and African-American applicants. Minority admissions…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Blacks, College Admission
Download full textWhite, Lawrence – 2000
This paper argues that without affirmative action, integration of American higher education would halt and resegregation would accelerate with each generation. The first section of the paper is an annotated bibliography of affirmative action in higher education; it cites books, articles and monographs, and two Web sites. The second section of the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Black Community, Black Education
