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Tech shifts policy for admissions Regents approve use of race-based entry
Lubbock Online October 4, 2003
Texas Tech will return to a former policy of including race and ethnicity as a factor in ad missions after the Board of Regents approved the measure Friday.
Race was a consideration before the 1996 Hopwood decision, which overturned affirmative action in Texas. The suit, named for lead plaintiff Cheryl Hopwood, was filed by four white students who were denied admission to the University of Texas School of Law.
However, a June ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court allows universities to return to using race as one of multiple factors in the admissions process.
"It allows the admissions policies to be flexible, race-neutral and race-conscious to make sure we have a diverse student body," said Tech Pres ident Jon Whitmore. "Clearly, we need to do a better job of diversifying our campus." ...
University officials believed the Hopwood decision increased the difficulty of diversifying the student body by eliminating the use of race as a consideration in the ad missions process.
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