Report: Politics, money influence admissions at UT-Austin
Source: Houston Chronicle
Report: Politics, money influence admissions at UT-Austin
By Benjamin Wermund | February 12, 2015 | Updated: February 12, 2015 3:44pm
University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers has pushed admissions officers to admit students they otherwise would have turned away, an independent investigator reported Thursday.
The report sheds light on how money and politics have for years played a role in the admissions process at the state's premier public research university, noting that every year "a select handful" of applicants are admitted over the objections of the admissions office.
"It is readily apparent that certain applicants are admitted at the instigation of the President over the assessment of the Admissions Office," reads the report, which says state lawmakers, UT regents and alumni have pushed for applicants to be considered by the president.
The report, commissioned by the UT board of regents also says that Powers and his chief of staff, Nancy Brazzil, misled officials during a previous internal audit by the UT System.
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