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 ...

The University of Texas will lower its auto-admissions rate for the state's top high schoolers to 5%, down from its existing threshold of 6%, President Jay Hartzell announced at a Faculty Council ...

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 ...

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 — A national organization has filed a lawsuit against the University of Texas at Austin on behalf of two white applicants who claim the school did not give them a fair opportunity to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’ 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 ...

AUSTIN - Having achieved tuition deregulation in 2003, University of Texas leaders are setting their sights on modifying the top 10 percent automatic admission law when the Legislature convenes in ...