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The Far Reach of the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan: Consideration of Professional School Degrees

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  • Toni Templeton
  • Chaunté L. White
  • Catherine L. Horn

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The purpose of this paper is to document the indirect effects of the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan on professional school degrees awarded and to propose the far reach of the law as an alternative argument in support of race-conscious admissions policies challenged under the strict scrutiny standard. Designed around the two tests of strict scrutiny, this study first highlights the essential need for a diverse constituency of professionals to enable societal advancement as a compelling state interest established by the courts and then provides empirical evidence to support additional narrowly tailored race-conscious admissions policies. Complementary interrupted time series analysis and logistic regression find that current admissions policies fail to improve diversity in professional school degrees awarded.

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  • Toni Templeton & Chaunté L. White & Catherine L. Horn, 2023. "The Far Reach of the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan: Consideration of Professional School Degrees," The Journal of Higher Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 94(5), pages 581-608, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:uhejxx:v:94:y:2023:i:5:p:581-608
    DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2023.2171216
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