How UT Used Standardized Testing to Slow Integration “Long-hidden documents reveal the University of Texas’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.” “Historically, however, the university went to great lengths to perpetuate white supremacy. Today, standardized testing is widely seen as an objective index of merit. In Texas, in the immediate post-Brown era, it seems to have been used as a bureaucratic cudgel to maintain Jim Crow.” “Until the mid-20th century, UT practiced an open-admissions policy—at least for nonblack applicants, as the scholars Thomas D. Russell and Dwonna Goldstone have explained. But a postwar boom in students, including returning GIs, raised doubts about how long such a policy could remain tenable. In The Big Test, Nicholas Lemann points out that many large universities in the 1950s adopted the SAT because they aspired to transform themselves into elite research institutions. But UT moved firmly in this direction only when administrators saw an anti-integrationist virtue to testing.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/how-ut-used-standardized-testing-to-slow-integration/597814/
Yeah, the Atlantic is usually accurate and depressing. But I don't know how secret UT's efforts were. They did their level best not to integrate their law school and to make life for the few initial Black students as miserable as possible. Texas is, after all, Texas.
This looks like AI writing, with no documents at all, just filler lacking any facts (or arguably, content...)
Is it possible that systemic or institutional racism existed at Louisiana State University, potentially propagated by the president of the institution? Moreover, might there have been attempts to influence the perspectives of the UT on this matter? https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/guest-column-lsu-icon-troy-middleton-wanted-to-keep-black-students-off-football-team-journalist/article_cb7d7d4a-9dac-11e9-b9ee-7fc2f02ed855.html https://www.lsu.edu/mediacenter/news/2020/06/06juneboardmeeting.eb.php It was a secret that family wanted to keep hidden because of $$$ https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/troy-middletons-descendants-file-lawsuit-against-lsu-want-military-collection-returned/article_6a278736-cd50-11eb-8082-4330de24f014.html
