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" Admissions and Public Higher Education in California, Texas, and Florida: The Post-Affirmative Action Era "
Colburn, David R; Young, Charles E; Yellen, Victor M
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938179
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LA35n755gf
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English
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Colburn, David R; Young, Charles E; Yellen, Victor M
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Admissions and Public Higher Education in California, Texas, and Florida: The Post-Affirmative Action Era [Article]\ Colburn, David R; Young, Charles E; Yellen, Victor M
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InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies
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4/1
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2008
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1996 was a momentous year for higher education in the United States. In that year voters in California adopted Proposition 209, a ballot measure that amended the state constitution to prohibit public institutions from discriminating on the basis of race, sex, or ethnicity. That same year, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in ''Hopwood v. Texas'' that it was unconstitutional for Texas public colleges and universities to use race as a condition of admission. The decisions in the two states reversed the trend among the nation’s major public universities to use affirmative action as a factor in the freshman admissions process. Prior to 1996, every public university in the Association of American Universities (AAU), an organization of the nation’s leading research universities, had employed affirmative action to ensure diversity among its entering freshmen classes.
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