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Direct linkNieli, Russell K. – Academic Questions, 2013
Russell K. Nieli writes in this opinion paper that as far as the ability of state colleges and universities to use race as a criteria for admission goes, "Fisher v. Texas" was a big disappointment, and failed in the most basic way. Nieli states that although some affirmative action opponents have tried to put a more positive spin on the…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Affirmative Action, College Admission, Admission Criteria
Freedman, Eric – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
It has been a long, litigious road from Heman Sweatt, an African-American mail carrier who wanted to attend the prestigious, all-White law school at the University of Texas at Austin in 1946, to Abigail Fisher, a White high school student who failed to win undergraduate admission to the same university a half-century later. Depending on what the…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Affirmative Action, Admission Criteria, Selective Admission
Clegg, Roger; Rosenberg, John S. – Academic Questions, 2012
The Supreme Court has granted review for the 2012 term in the case "Fisher v. University of Texas." Abigail Fisher, a rejected white applicant to the University of Texas, has challenged the use of racial and ethnic admission preferences, which the Court had allowed in its 2003 decision involving the University of Michigan law school,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Affirmative Action, Educational Benefits, Court Litigation
Roemer, Ann – College and University, 2011
Ever since the founding of this country, equality, freedom, and justice have been the underlying values of America's political and educational systems. More than 150 years later, higher education policymakers in the United States began to incorporate these values into their admissions decisions by including ethnic and racial diversity as a stated…
Descriptors: African Americans, Higher Education, Campuses, Second Language Learning
Newton, Chris – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1999
Assessment of Hopwood v Texas ruling on admissions at West Texas A&M University finds it has had little effect on that institution. The school stepped up recruitment efforts, targeting high schools with diverse populations. Additionally, the state's "10 percent" rule automatically made the top 10% percent of graduating students…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Black Students
Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education. – 1986
The underrepresentation of Mexican Americans in Texas higher education is a major challenge facing the state's leaders. In Texas the growing Mexican American population will constitute the majority of the labor force in 20 to 30 years. The only way to insure a healthy and productive economy for Texas in the future is to invest now in the education…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Affirmative Action, Articulation (Education)
