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...done--is fight back with a range of new programs and policies designed to maintain minority enrollment while carefully walking the new legal lines set by the courts. No school has worked harder to do this than U.T.'s law school, which in 1996 was hit by a suit, Hopwood v. Texas; the ruling in that case removed race as a consideration in admissions...
...alumni have stepped in to help. Last year U.T.'s alumni association, the Texas Exes, gave nearly $400,000 in aid to 31 Hispanics, 28 blacks and one Native American. The payoff: black enrollment is up--to 16 this fall from the low of four the year after Hopwood...
...state of Texas responded to Hopwood with the now famous "top 10%" law that guarantees a place in the state university system to any student who graduates in the top 10% of his or her class. Because many Texas high schools are not well integrated, the top 10% in some schools is almost all minorities. U.T. officials have boosted the program's impact by offering scholarships to top percenters at 70 high schools in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and other underrepresented--and heavily black and Latino--areas. Minority enrollment in the U.T. undergraduate program is actually higher today than before...
California's public colleges and universities have also been scrambling to blunt the impact of Proposition 209, passed in that state the same year as the Hopwood decision. In the wake of that new law, black enrollment plunged 17% systemwide in 1998 and more than 50% at the most selective campuses. But since then, minority enrollment has been on the upswing. Part of the reason: the 4% plan, California's version of Texas' 10% plan...
...rare use of his bully pulpit, Rudenstine heads a nationwide coalition of 62 university presidents calling for diversity in higher education, following the Supreme Court's Hopwood decision restricting the use of race as a factor in admission...