Winners and losers: Changes in Texas University admissions post-Hopwood

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 255-280

  Long, Mark C ^a   Tienda, Marta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

College affirmative action; Institutional responses; Racial proxy indicators

Indexed keywords

EID: 51749124864     PISSN: 01623737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0162373708321384     Document Type: Article

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