Winners and Losers: Changes in Texas University Admissions Post-Hopwood
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Winners and Losers: Changes in Texas University Admissions post-Hopwood.
This paper evaluates changes in the racial and ethnic composition of admissions at three Texas universities following the judicial ban on affirmative action imposed by the 1996 Hopwood decision. We estimate the extent to which universities practiced affirmative action before the judicial ban, and evaluate how admission officers at these universities changed the relative weights accorded to vari...
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عنوان ژورنال: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0162-3737,1935-1062
DOI: 10.3102/0162373708321384