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Home Front: Culture Wars
Colleges are dropping testing, curriculum standards in order to create ‘diversity'
2019-12-27
h/t Gates of Vienna
[Campus Reform] - Colleges and universities are changing both admissions and curriculum requirements in order to create more ’diversity’ within their student bodies. These changes often involve lowering of standards, and an implication that students from certain backgrounds cannot score as high on tests as their peers.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#7  2-ply is preferred
Posted by: Frank G   2019-12-27 20:13  

#6  How absorbent is university vellum?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-12-27 19:21  

#5  ^H1B
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-12-27 17:36  

#4  Degrees won't be worth the paper or parchment they are written on.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-12-27 17:35  

#3  United States Military Academy at West Point "engineering degree" graduates ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-12-27 16:42  

#2  This spells the end of academic merit as the main decision factor in elite university admissions, to be replaced by crude social engineering.

It means that, for the "test-optional" university, the admissions process will be driven toward predetermined ethnic, social and financial outcomes.

It's really not a big step from current practice - as the Harvard trial's massive data sets and evidence revealed. They already engineer the admissions process to ensure desired social outcomes:
- 30% athlete/legacy/dependent children of staff;
- 28% underrepresented minority;
- 30% from about 70-80 elite schools located primarily in New England and New York City;
- Not more than 20% Asian domestic/US
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-27 15:22  

#1  "Lowering of Standards," who knew ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-12-27 15:11  

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