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UT may use race in admission, appeals court rules
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/15/appeals-court-upholds-u-texas-affirmative-action-policy#sthash.qKpWqZw0.u56qJab3.dpbshttp://www.statesman.com/news/news/ut-may-use-race-in-admission-appeals-court-rules/nggKx/
The University of Texas may continue considering race for undergraduate admissions, a divided federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday.
“To deny UT Austin its limited use of race in its search for holistic diversity would hobble the richness of the educational experience,” said the 2-1 opinion by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
“Universities may use race as part of a holistic admissions program where it cannot otherwise achieve diversity,” Judge Patrick Higginbotham wrote for the majority. “This interest is compelled by the reality that university education is more the shaping of lives than the filling of heads with facts — the classic assertion of the humanities.”
“To deny UT Austin its limited use of race in its search for holistic diversity would hobble the richness of the educational experience,” said the 2-1 opinion by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
“Universities may use race as part of a holistic admissions program where it cannot otherwise achieve diversity,” Judge Patrick Higginbotham wrote for the majority. “This interest is compelled by the reality that university education is more the shaping of lives than the filling of heads with facts — the classic assertion of the humanities.”
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