444 Scholars Tell Court That Research Supports Race-Conscious Admissions

The Chronicle of Higher Education
August 10, 2012

By Peter Schmidt

Washington

More than 440 scholars have signed onto a brief telling the U.S. Supreme Court that research supports colleges' use of race-conscious admissions policies like the one the justices are weighing in a case involving the University of Texas at Austin.
The brief, prepared by the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California at Los Angeles, argues that the Austin campus cannot achieve sufficient levels of diversity for educational purposes without evaluating some share of its applicants using holistic admission criteria. It argues that sufficient levels of diversity cannot be produced by class rank-based admissions guarantees such as a Texas law assuring young state residents in the top tenth of their high-school class a spot at any Texas public university.

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