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627 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2010)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0627 and id is 1 raw text is: Policy Context Beyond Admissions: Lessons from Texas By MARK LONG and MARTA TIENDA The use of affirmative action in college adm- issions has been controversial for decades. The nomination and confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice refocused media attention on the criteria selective postsecondary institutions use to admit students. Was she given preferential consideration for being Puerto Rican; for growing up poor; or because she excelled in high school, despite achieving lower test scores than other applicants? As her stellar professional career attests, administrators at both Princeton University and Yale University Law School saw in her application a gifted student whose intellectual promise warranted admission. The Supreme Court has repeatedly been asked to decide the constitutionality of racial and ethnic preferences in college admissions. In its 1950 Sweatt v. Painter decision, the Court ruled that a separate law school for blacks in Texas was not equal to the whites-only University of Texas Law School and, thus, did not meet the separate but equal require- ments of the Court's 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. wrote the Mark Long is an associate professor >f public affairs at the Dan oiel Evans School at the University of Washington. His research focuses on the effects of affirmalire aclion and alternative college admissions policies on colle etr y; the efficts of college financial aid on household savings; the effects o f high school course-taking and school and college quality on test scores, educational attainment, labor mar- ket outcomes, family formation, and other behaviors; and the economics of nursing labor markets. Marta Tienda is the .\Maurice P. During '22 Professor in Demographic Stluies anl professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. Her current research interests include equity and access to higher education and the causes and conseqiences of child migration and immigrant integration in new destina- tions. She is co-principal investigator of the Texas Higher Education Opportunity i'Project. DOJ: 10.1177/0002716209348716 ANNALS, AAPSS, 627, January 2010 PREFACE 6

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