University of Texas’s New Admissions Process Survives Race Suit

University of Texas at Austin should no longer face claims over its process for accepting undergraduate students because the school stopped considering race or ethnicity as factors, a federal judge said Monday.

The university revised its admissions practices to reflect the US Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College last year that held race-based decisions are unconstitutional, Judge Robert Pitman of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas said. As such, a lawsuit the university faced for its admissions choices prior to the high court’s decision is now ...