University of Texas Campuses Can Make The Choice on Affirmative Action
SAN ANTONIO
The University of Texas Board of Regents earlier this month approved a policy that allows individual campuses within the UT System to decide whether to adopt affirmative-action criteria in admissions.
Authority may be further decentralized to separate colleges and even academic departments within those 15 university campuses as a way to enroll a more diverse student population.
The regents’ action on affirmative action was a response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in June that public universities can use race and ethnicity as a factor when admitting students. The high court’s ruling negated the Hopwood decisions in Texas, which prohibited use of race in college admissions and financial aid.
