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Francisco Cigarroa enters as chancellor of the University of Texas system with inclusion in mind.  One of his goals is to relax admissions policies which automatically admit Texas residents in the top ten percent of their class.  By relaxing this policy and looking at other factors besides GPA, he hopes to increase diversity of the U of T-Austin:

Cigarroa said the system could keep or even increase diversity in the student body even if the top 10 percent law is modified or eliminated.

“I think we can find an appropriate balance where universities not only look at the top 10 percent, but they also look at those wonderfully competitive students who may have not made the top 10 percent but have done something incredibly special,” Cigarroa said.

A friend in the State Senate states in the article that Cigarroa is the face of Texas’s changing demographics and will serve as a role model for the Mexican-American community.