WASHINGTON (AP) — In a narrow victory for affirmative action, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a University of Texas program that takes account of race in deciding whom to admit, an important ...

William C. Powers Jr., president of the University of Texas at Austin, might have provided grounds for a new U.S. Supreme Court review of his institution’s race-conscious undergraduate admissions ...

Unlike Texas’ public universities, many private schools in the state still consider race in admissions, including Rice University in Houston, where university leaders already pledged a commitment to ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. More than two dozen groups, including the U.S. Department of Justice and ...

Conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court came out aggressively today against the race-conscious admissions plan at the University of Texas at Austin, while liberals raised jurisdictional issues and ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. A series on the fight over the Top 10 Percent Rule and the quest to make ...

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Thanks to a new initiative from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and Gov. Greg Abbott, Texas students can now find out what state universities they can get into before applying as early ...

Advocates for minority students are cheering a new Texas law that bans graduate and professional schools at state universities from using standardized tests as the primary factor in deciding to reject ...

“I am disappointed,” said Abigail Fisher. — -- The Supreme Court ruled today in favor of the University of Texas’ admissions plan, leaving in place the school’s affirmative action policy. In a ...

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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court sent a case involving the use of race in the University of Texas' admissions process back to a lower court for stricter scrutiny on Monday. It's one more chapter in the ...