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2019-12-27 Home Front: Culture Wars

Colleges are dropping testing, curriculum standards in order to create ‘diversity'

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-27 13:39|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 "Lowering of Standards," who knew ?

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-27 15:11|| 2019-12-27 15:11|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-12-27 15:22|| Front Page Top

United States Military Academy at West Point "engineering degree" graduates ?

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-27 16:42|| 2019-12-27 16:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Degrees won't be worth the paper or parchment they are written on.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-12-27 17:35|| 2019-12-27 17:35|| Front Page Top

#5 ^H1B

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-27 17:36|| 2019-12-27 17:36|| Front Page Top

#6 How absorbent is university vellum?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-27 19:21|| 2019-12-27 19:21|| Front Page Top

#7 2-ply is preferred

Posted by Frank G 2019-12-27 20:13|| 2019-12-27 20:13|| Front Page Top

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