The University of Tennessee System has standardized its language across all campuses to include standardized test scores in its guaranteed admissions requirements for top-performing high school ...

Yesterday’s ruling by a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding race as a criterion for admissions to the University of Texas at Austin comes on the heels of another big ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KTRK) -- A national organization has filed a lawsuit against the University of Texas at Austin on behalf of two white students who were denied admission, marking the third time the ...

A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday upheld the University of Texas' race-conscious admissions policy, a decision that experts called significant but far from conclusive. The 2-1 decision by a ...

AUSTIN — Civil rights groups and business leaders on Tuesday stood up for the University of Texas admission policy, defending its role for protecting diversity, as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to ...

AUSTIN — An appeals court is scheduled to consider a lawsuit today that challenges the use of race and ethnicity in undergraduate admissions policies at the University of Texas at Austin. A ...

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The University of Texas at Austin is tightening its admissions policy regarding automatic admissions of top Texas high school grads. State law guarantees admission for students in the top 10 percent ...

The University of Texas’ piece of the sordid college admissions scandal was, we are told, an isolated incident. One $100,000 bribe. One student allegedly admitted under false pretenses. And ...

In a decision awaited by colleges across the nation, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the University of Texas at Austin could continue to consider race as part of its application evaluation ...

High school students in Texas will need to be in the top 5% of their graduating class to gain automatic admission to the University of Texas at Austin to enroll in the fall of 2026, a harder threshold ...