Word: hopwood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Following the Supreme Court's Hopwood decision restricting the use of race as a factor in admissions, President Neil L. Rudenstine heads a nationwide coalition of universities that places a large advertisement in the New York Times calling for a commitment to diversity in education...
...Hopwood vs. Texas, Fifth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals...
...most recent federal decision on the issue, Hopwood struck down the "use of race as a factor in law school admissions." The Supreme the case. The law stands in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi...
Using race is "no more rational on its own terms than would be choices based upon the physical size or blood type of applicants," reads the opinion in Hopwood vs. Texas, a challenge to Supreme Court Justice Powell's 1978 opinion in Bakke that diversity is beneficial...
...Florida, have contacted California in an effort to emulate Proposition 187. It has also fueled the current debate over affirmative action, with many states stripping away long-existing and beneficial affirmative action laws. Proposition 209, the legislation aimed at doing away with affirmative action in California, and the recent Hopwood vs. Texas case, which struck down the University of Texas Law School's affirmative action program, are only two instances...