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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a time, up to the mid to late 1980s, where the college you attended mattered.  But then the slow but unstoppable push for diversity for diversity’s sake began.  Schools began to offer more and more money to “underprivileged” students to diversify their student population.  At first school’s worked hard to make sure that the students had the requisite talent to succeed, but as time wore on it became a numbers game and student quality no longer mattered.

The 90s and early 2000’s saw the rise of diversity in the faculty ranks, again at first with positive results.  But it too became a numbers game.  Now we have university leaders who got to where they were via falsified research and plagiarism not talent.

The top schools up until recently skated by on their reputations but the facades are crumbling.  Now companies still recruit at top universities but have branched out to find true talent.   They do their own preemployment testing to separate the high performers from those gifted As to avoid parents complaining about Larla and Larlo not getting As for $100K a year.

So, you now have parent’s complaining that they spent mid six figures on an Ivy League education only to have their kid working at the local grocery store.

But gotta keep that consulting gravy train rolling.  
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Someone’s kid definitely didn’t in.[/quote]

Nope, both kids got into first choice schools.  One now headed to Cambridge for graduate school.

Just stating the obvious on how higher education institutions have (d)evolved over the past four decades.  [/quote]

IKR?  Remember back then when no women could go to many of these top institutions?  Those were the days before women devolved everything,[/quote]

Nice try a slightly dated study but - “By 1979, women became the majority gender for total fall college enrollment for the first time, and the female share of college enrollment increased gradually over time and is now about 56.5%. That means that there are currently about 130 women enrolled in a college degree program for every 100 men.” and “By 1982, women became the majority gender for bachelor’s degrees for the first time, and today women earn 57.4% of bachelor’s degrees, which means there are 135 women earning bachelor’s degrees for every 100 men.”

Source - https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-the-incredible-13m-gender-college-degree-gap-since-1982-favoring-women/#:~:text=By%201979%2C%20women%20became%20the,and%20is%20now%20about%2056.5%25. [/quote]

Okay, I'm confused. Are you arguing that The higher education of women is a positive development or a negative development?[/quote]

Argument is that staring in the 1980s universities lowered standards for students and teaching and leadership staff.  As a result they are now bloated, filled with mediocre teaching staff that give everyone As to keep parents that are shelling out high five and low six figures a year in tuition and fees happy while scoring well on the various college rating scales.   [/quote]

Huh?  “Back in the day” pre-1980 you were basically auto-accepted to Harvard and other Ivy schools as long as you attended the right school (and you probably had legacy).

Student standards have increased markedly since then, though some argue 1980-2000 was the golden era of high student/meritocratic standards for top schools because they didn’t really recruit for sports the way they do now and were far more driven by test scores and GPAs (though there was still the easy admit for the legacy Exeter kid).[/quote]

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