The Chronicle for Higher Education
December 17, 2015
Texas Exes, an organization representing alumni of the University of Texas at Austin, has apologized for its criticism of inflammatory remarks that Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court made last week in hearing a challenge to race-conscious admissions on that campus.
Justice Scalia provoked widespread outrage by saying that “there are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans” to admit them “into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school … a slower-track school where they do well.”
Even researchers who support the idea that race-conscious admissions hurt some minority students by placing them at colleges where they will struggle distanced themselves from the justice’s clumsily worded distillation of that argument.