The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union are worried that new admissions standards at Nevada’s universities could hurt minority enrollment, the Associated Press reports.
The University of Nevada at Reno and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas plan to raise their minimum grade-point average from 2.75 to 3.0. In 2006, when the universities raised the minimum GPA from 2.5 to 2.75, they saw an overall drop in enrollment, with minority students affected the most.
Yet the state’s higher-education system expects enrollment at the universities to increase this fall, according to the AP. That is because the system is allowing exceptions for artistically and athletically gifted students, and those who had good grades before facing personal trouble. Students also have the option of submitting their SAT or ACT scores instead of their high-school grades. —Beckie Supiano
