On the funnier side of the Affirmative Action decision, yesterday I received four (4) official repudiations of the decision from different levels of administrative at my university. Each started with “Although our university does not use affirmative action in its admissions process…”
We never received four whole edicts all at once for any event, holiday, commemoration or happening. Dobbs got zero. Jan 6 got two, and they were spaced out. Afghanistan withdrawal got zero. War in Ukraine – zero. Juneteenth – two. Even George Floyd only got three, and they weren’t all on one day.
There was also an edict once condemning DeSantis but I don’t remember why. It seemed very random to condemn a governor of a completely different state
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Just signal your virtue is all they are saying.
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My university’s administration hasn’t done anything so far. I think my university is slightly more selective than where you are, but just slightly. There might be some affirmative action going on in some of the professional programs, but undergraduates only need to be in the top 50% of their high school class to get in. And I believe anyone who finishes a two year degree at a community college in our state is guaranteed acceptance as a transfer student, so there is a pathway for anyone who wants to go here.
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This lack of criteria for admission is actually a very serious problem. We admit people who have zero hope of graduating, give them false promises, take their money, and leave them in debt. I think it’s immoral.
Our administration thinks that the way to avoid this immorality is to give everybody a passing grade. It adopted the very Soviet position that if a student fails, it can only happen because the professor isn’t working hard enough. Any objection to this philosophy – and you are tarred as a racist.
I think we should just fire everybody and leave one person on campus who meets new students at the gate, takes their money and hands over a diploma. Why do we need to bother with the pretense of teaching if that’s the ultimate goal anyway?
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Things aren’t quite that bad here. It’s OK to fail students and no one gets in trouble unless they are failing a huge percentage every semester. But there has been a trend of dumbing down the general education requirements and a lot of growth in majors that seem to be relatively easy to get through. There is a major in Entrepreneurship that appears to be a business major that requires absolutely no math. Almost every student I have had with the Entrepreneurship major has been noticeably dim and/or shockingly lazy. And I’m not ragging on Business students at all. I’ve had lots of students majoring in things like Accounting, Finance, and Marketing who were sharp and very hard working. It’s like. I also have concerns about Sports Management, it’s a huge major and all of the students in that think they will go run NFL teams when they graduate.
I agree that it is immoral to take money from students who have no chance of graduating.
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When administrators condemn the Supreme Court striking down a practice that they claim the institution has never engaged in, I think my recent Areo piece is relevant:
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