From the August 28, 1996 Daily Report Card:
-> *5   RACE NEUTRAL:  TEXAS A.G. ISSUES COLLEGE GUIDELINES
->    Texas Attorney General Dan Morales last week issued a set of
-> race-neutral guidelines to colleges that would help boost
-> minority enrollment while complying with the law (Moreno, THE
-> DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 8/22).  According to Morales, the guidelines
-> would conform to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that
-> outlawed race-based affirmative action programs used by
-> universities in Texas, La., and Miss.  Morales addressed his
-> guidelines to Leonard Rauch, chairman of the Texas Higher
-> Education Coordinating Board.
->    Specifically, Morales said schools may use factors such as
-> age, gender, family history, socioeconomic history and the level of
-> education achieved by the applicant's parents, reports the
-> paper.  Other factors suggested by Morales include:  applicant's
-> hometown, employment history, military service, personal talent,
-> leadership potential, public service and extracurricular
-> activities.
->    Morales:  "Proper consideration of these factors will not
-> only comply with the [court] decision but should result in our
-> institutions matriculating and graduating a cross section of our
-> state's population."
->    Teri Flack, spokeswoman for the Texas Higher Education
-> Coordinating Board, explained that her agency is already
-> developing its own set of race-neutral guidelines to be brought
-> before the board in October.  "We think we're going in the same
-> direction the attorney general indicated," said Flack.
->    The paper traces the history of Texas' higher education
-> admissions.  Last March, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New
-> Orleans banned an admissions policy of using separate
-> admissions committees for minorities used by the U of Texas Law
-> School to increase the number of Mexican-American and black
-> students.  The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the U of Texas'
-> appeal this July, which leaves the appeals court ruling as
-> binding law within the 5th Circuit, which includes Texas, La.,
-> and Miss.
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