Appeals court upholds use of race in Texas admissions

01-19-2011

Blog by Mark Walsh/Education Week

In a case that has been watched closely in education and legal circles, a federal appeals court has upheld the consideration of race in undergraduate admissions to the University of Texas at Austin. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, in New Orleans, on Tuesday upheld a program in which the university considers race as one factor for admission after Texas students from the top 10 percent of their high school classes claim places guaranteed by a state law. The university reinstated race consideration after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a race-conscious admissions program at the University of Michigan Law School in a 2003 decision known as Grutter v. Bollinger. Before then, the state had been barred from using race in admissions by a 1996 decision by the 5th Circuit known as Hopwood v. Texas. (more…)

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