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The University of Texas admissions controversy grew out of the investigations and public statements of a member of the University of Texas System Board of Regents.Wallace L. Hall Jr. was appointed to a six-year term in February 2011 by then Governor Rick Perry. [1]
Texas House Bill 588, commonly referred to as the "Top 10% Rule", is a Texas law passed in 1997. It was signed into law by then governor George W. Bush on May 20, 1997. The law guarantees Texas students who graduated in the top ten percent of their high school class automatic admission to all state-funded universities.
Schools do rescind admission if students have been dishonest in their application, [202] [203] [204] have conducted themselves in a way deemed to be inconsistent with the values of the school, [205] [206] or do not heed warnings of poor academic performance; for example, one hundred high school applicants accepted to Texas Christian University ...
Texas, 78 F.3d 932 (5th Cir. 1996), [1] was the first successful legal challenge to a university's affirmative action policy in student admissions since Regents of the University of California v. Bakke . [ 2 ]
Fisher v. University of Texas, 570 U.S. 297 (2013), also known as Fisher I (to distinguish it from the 2016 case), [1] is a United States Supreme Court case concerning the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin.
The University of Texas at Austin was ranked as the 18th most selective in the South. [119] As a state public university, UT Austin was subject to Texas House Bill 588, which guaranteed Texas high school seniors graduating in the top 10% of their class admission to any public Texas university. A new state law granting UT Austin (but no other ...
Plaintiffs Abigail Noel Fisher and Rachel Multer Michalewicz applied to the University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and were denied admission. The two women, both white, filed suit, alleging that the University had discriminated against them on the basis of their race in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. [5]
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio: UTHSA or UTHSCSA UT Health San Antonio. Long School of Medicine: San Antonio, Laredo: 1959 3,491 783 2,708 $774,507,419 [53] [54] The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston: UTH or UTHSCH UTHealth or. UT Houston. McGovern Medical School: Houston: 1972 5,319 554 4,765 ...