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The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System . With 52,384 students as of Fall 2022, it is also the largest institution in the system.
This list of University of Texas at Austin faculty includes current and former instructors and administrators of the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), a major research university located in Austin, Texas that is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. [1] [2] [3] Founded in 1883, the university has had the fifth ...
Hopwood v. Texas, 78 F.3d 932 ( 5th Cir. 1996), [1] was the first successful legal challenge to a university's affirmative action policy in student admissions since Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. [2] In Hopwood, four white plaintiffs who had been rejected from University of Texas at Austin 's School of Law challenged the ...
UT's admissions are dictated by state law: the top 6% of all Texas high school students are offered automatic entry to the university — making up 75% of the school's incoming class.
UT Austin alumni in academia include the 26th president of the College of William & Mary Gene Nichol '76, the 10th president of Boston University Robert A. Brown '73 & '75, and the 8th president of the University of Southern California John R. Hubbard. The university also graduated Alan Bean '55, the fourth man to walk on the Moon.
Fisher v. University of Texas, 579 U.S. 365 (2016), also known as Fisher II (to distinguish it from the 2013 case), is a United States Supreme Court case which held that the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit correctly found that the University of Texas at Austin's undergraduate admissions policy survived strict scrutiny, in accordance with Fisher v.
XIV, Grutter v. Bollinger. Fisher v. University of Texas, 570 U.S. 297 (2013), also known as Fisher I (to distinguish it from the 2016 case ), [1] is a United States Supreme Court case concerning the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin. The Supreme Court voided the lower appellate court's ruling in favor of ...
The University of Texas admissions controversy grew out of the investigations and public statements of a member of the University of Texas System Board of Regents. Wallace L. Hall Jr. was appointed to a six-year term in February 2011 by then Governor Rick Perry. [1] Following his appointment, and in the wake of the failure of a campaign to ...