UT Trying to rescind Ciro Rodriguez’s “Landmark Law”
From WOAI (via the Associated Press):
AUSTIN (AP) - The University of Texas at Austin has “lost control” of its admissions policy and wants to change the law that guarantees automatic entry to students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class, UT President William Powers said Wednesday.
Powers said a record 81 percent of the Texas freshmen entering the university this fall gained admission through the so-called “top 10 percent rule.” Unless the Legislature changes the policy during its upcoming 2009 session, Powers said the state’s premier university soon would have no room to admit any Texas student who does not meet that standard.
“We’ve lost control of our entering class because we don’t have any discretion on the admissions,” Powers said a legislative preview meeting hosted by the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors. Powers said the university supports some form of automatic admission based on high school grades but wants to modify existing law so that high achievers who happen to fall short of the top 10 percent can gain entry.
When a university only has discretion over 19% of the incoming freshman that it is admitting, then there is a problem. This problem is the result of a failed policy drafted by Ciro Rodriguez, according to the “About Ciro” section of Rodriguez’s own web site.
As a state Representative, Congressman Rodriguez drafted the landmark Texas law guaranteeing acceptance of the top ten percent of Texas high school graduates to any public four-year Texas university.
Backed up here just in case the page goes down the memory hole.
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