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Templeton, Toni; White, Chaunté L.; Horn, Catherine L. – Journal of Higher Education, 2023
The purpose of this paper is to document the indirect effects of the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan on professional school degrees awarded and to propose the far reach of the law as an alternative argument in support of race-conscious admissions policies challenged under the strict scrutiny standard. Designed around the two tests of strict scrutiny,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action
Black, Sandra E.; Denning, Jeffrey T.; Rothstein, Jesse – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Selective college admissions are fundamentally a question of tradeoffs: Given capacity, admitting one student means rejecting another. Research to date has generally estimated average effects of college selectivity and has been unable to distinguish between the effects on students gaining access and on those losing access under alternative…
Descriptors: Universities, College Admission, Selective Admission, Access to Education
Black, Sandra E.; Denning, Jeffrey T.; Rothstein, Jesse – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
Selective college admissions are fundamentally a question of tradeoffs: Given capacity, admitting one student means rejecting another. Research to date has generally estimated average effects of college selectivity, and has been unable to distinguish between the effects on students gaining access and on those losing access under alternative…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Selective Admission, Outcomes of Education, Education Work Relationship
Holzman, Brian; Lewis, Bethany – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2020
This policy brief describes the Texas high school graduation requirements put into effect through the passage of House Bill 5 in 2013. The brief also contends the introduction of academic endorsements, similar to college majors and intended to help high school students develop subject-area knowledge, may create clearer paths to selective college…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Educational Legislation, High School Students, Graduation Requirements
Hill, Catharine Bond; Kurzweil, Martin; Tobin, Eugene – ITHAKA S+R, 2023
With a decision pending in two lawsuits challenging race-conscious admissions practices at Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), many observers are predicting that the US Supreme Court will significantly limit, if not completely prohibit, the use of race in college and university admissions. However if the United…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Race, College Admission, Prediction
Anthony Tillman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Education is the value proposition that provides individuals the opportunity to become meaningful contributors to society, their community, and their immediate families. It is the calling card of personal achievement and individual intrinsic benefits. Education is about access and opportunity. Institutions continue to navigate strategies of access…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Socioeconomic Status, Student Diversity, Selective Admission
Orfield, Gary – ETS Research Report Series, 2017
The Supreme Court has established the parameters within which universities can practice race-conscious affirmative action for college admissions in a series of decisions beginning in l978. The key issues concern the educational impact of campus diversity and whether or not it is necessary to give some consideration to students' race into order to…
Descriptors: College Admission, Affirmative Action, Selective Admission, Court Litigation
Akhtari, Mitra; Bau, Natalie; Laliberté, Jean-William – Texas Education Research Center, 2018
Race-based affirmative action policies are widespread in higher education. Despite the prevalence of these policies, there is little consensus on how affirmative action policies affect students either before they reach college or after they matriculate into college. This study provides new evidence on the benefits of affirmative action policies…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Racial Factors, Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation
Ocampo, Roxanne – ProQuest LLC, 2017
"Undermatching" refers to college ready students who select and enroll in colleges with selectivity levels significantly lower than their academic profile, resulting in attending a non-competitive college, a two-year college, or foregoing applying to college altogether. The current research trend examining the topic of Undermatching…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Selective Admission, Low Income, First Generation College Students
Garces, Liliana M.; Jayakumar, Uma M. – Educational Researcher, 2014
Through an analysis of relevant social science evidence, this article provides a deeper understanding of critical mass, a concept that has become central in litigation efforts related to affirmative action admissions policies that seek to further the educational benefits of diversity. We demonstrate that the concept of critical mass requires an…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Race, Court Litigation, Educational Policy
Jones, Brent M. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2014
An exploratory study of applicants who rejected admission to the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (TAMS) is described in this article. TAMS is a residential early college entry program at the University of North Texas in Denton. Up to 600 mathematically talented sophomores apply to TAMS each year and among the 200 selectees, a predictable…
Descriptors: High School Students, STEM Education, Academically Gifted, Mathematics
Garces, Liliana M.; Mickey-Pabello, David – Journal of Higher Education, 2015
This study examines the impact of affirmative action bans in six states (California, Washington, Florida, Texas, Michigan, and Nebraska) on the matriculation rates of historically underrepresented students of color in public medical schools in these states. Findings show that affirmative action bans have led to about a 17% decline (from 18.5% to…
Descriptors: Ethnic Diversity, Racial Composition, Affirmative Action, Disproportionate Representation
Douglass, John Aubrey – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Once again, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide on the contentious issue of Affirmative Action, and specifically the use of race in admissions decisions in public universities. Despite differences in the details, seasoned veterans of affirmative action debates are experiencing déjà vu. In this case, Abigail Noel Fisher claims overt racial…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Court Litigation, Racial Discrimination, College Applicants
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
Blume, Grant H.; Long, Mark C. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2014
Affirmative action in college admissions was effectively banned in Texas by the Hopwood ruling in 1997, by voter referenda in California and Washington in 1996 and 1998, and by administrative decisions in Florida in 1999. The "Hopwood" and "Johnson" rulings also had possible applicability to public colleges throughout Alabama,…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Administration, State Legislation, Court Litigation