Peer-Reviewed Articles

Flores, S.M. (2014). Remembering Mandela in a new demographic era. Harvard Educational Review– Voices in Education Blog. http://hepg.org/blog/108.

Horn, C. L., & Flores, S. M. (2012). When policy opportunity is not enough: College access and enrollment patterns among Texas Percent Plan Eligible Students. Journal of Applied Research on Children, 3(2), 1-26.

Book Chapters

Flores, S. M., & Oseguera, L. (2013). Public policy and higher education attainment in a 21st-century racial demography: Examining research from early childhood to the labor market. In M. Paulsen (Ed.), Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, (Vol. 28, pp. 513-560). Netherlands: Springer.

Horn, C. L., & Flores, S. M. (2011). Race-conscious decision making in a state-driven admissions process: Texas, The University of Texas at Austin, and the Top Ten Percent Plan. In D. Heller (Ed.), The states and public higher education policy: Affordability, access, and accountability (2nd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Marin, P., & Flores, S. M. (2008). Bakke and state policy: Exercising institutional autonomy to maintain a diverse student body. In P. Marin & C. L. Horn (Eds.), Realizing Bakke’s legacy: Affirmative action, equal opportunity, and access to higher education (pp. 219-239). Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Reprinted in 2010 as:
Marin, P., & Flores, S. M. (2010). Bakke and state policy: Exercising institutional autonomy to maintain a diverse student body (originally published in 2008). In S. Harper & S. Hurtado (Eds.), ASHE reader on racial and ethnic diversity (3rd ed), 647-658, Boston: Pearson Education.

Flores, S. M., & Jiménez Morfín, O. (2008). Another side of the percent plan story: Latino enrollment in the Hispanic-serving institution sector in California and Texas public higher education in a race-neutral policy era. In M. Gasman, B. Baez, & C. Sotello Turner (Eds.), Understanding minority serving institutions (pp. 141-155). Albany: State University of New York Press.

Kurlaender, M., & Flores, S. M. (2005). The racial transformation of higher education. In G. Orfield, P. Marin, & C. L. Horn (Eds.), Higher education and the color line: College access, racial equity, and social change (pp. 11-32). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Technical Reports and Policy Briefs

Flores, S. M. & Horn, C. L. (under review). Texas Top Ten Percent Plan: How It Works, What Are Its Limits, and Recommendations to Consider. A report commissioned by the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ.

Flores, S. M. (2012). Research on Texas in U.S. higher education and the effectiveness of race-neutral admissions. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association. Retrieved from http://www.aera.net/Portals/38/docs/Education_Research_and_Research_Policy/Amicus/Flores_TexasDataandResearch_Sept%202012FINAL%20(2).pdf

Orfield, G., Marin, P., Flores, S. M., & Garcés, L. M. (Eds.). (2007). Charting the future of college affirmative action: Legal victories, continuing attacks, and new research. Los Angeles: The Civil Rights Project at UCLA.

Horn, C. L., & Flores, S. M. (2003). Percent plans in college admissions: A comparative analysis of three states’ experiences. Cambridge, MA: The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.