Heads of educational institutions cave in to the "race above everything else" school of thought, not because they crave public support (they couldn't care less) but because it's personally and politically expedient! Let me explain: at the Univ. of California, it currently takes 75% of Black UC students 7 or more years to finish an undergraduate degree, that too with many of these students changing majors midway to something way less rigorous, and likely far less viable career-wise. Asking why this phenomenon occurs, as a precursor to finding a solution, would be way too uncomfortable! Instead, it's so much easier and comfortable all-round to attribute it all to 'racial inequity', thus absolving authorities of any responsibility in the matter. Why else would the UC Board of Regents choose to ban the SAT's, when the UC Academic Senate unanimously voted to keep it? The one truly objective yardstick to judge student ability has now been removed from the admissions process, thus enabling admissions officials to boost Black admission rates unhindered, on supposedly holistic criteria (that dreaded word that covers a multitude of sins!) and thereby "proving" that racial equity practices have worked! Next, how to ensure said Black students graduate in increasing numbers without giving the lie? Why, "equitable grading policies" of course! And so on the fable goes, with no one daring to point out that the emperor is, in fact, stark naked.
Heads of educational institutions cave in to the "race above everything else" school of thought, not because they crave public support (they couldn't care less) but because it's personally and politically expedient! Let me explain: at the Univ. of California, it currently takes 75% of Black UC students 7 or more years to finish an undergraduate degree, that too with many of these students changing majors midway to something way less rigorous, and likely far less viable career-wise. Asking why this phenomenon occurs, as a precursor to finding a solution, would be way too uncomfortable! Instead, it's so much easier and comfortable all-round to attribute it all to 'racial inequity', thus absolving authorities of any responsibility in the matter. Why else would the UC Board of Regents choose to ban the SAT's, when the UC Academic Senate unanimously voted to keep it? The one truly objective yardstick to judge student ability has now been removed from the admissions process, thus enabling admissions officials to boost Black admission rates unhindered, on supposedly holistic criteria (that dreaded word that covers a multitude of sins!) and thereby "proving" that racial equity practices have worked! Next, how to ensure said Black students graduate in increasing numbers without giving the lie? Why, "equitable grading policies" of course! And so on the fable goes, with no one daring to point out that the emperor is, in fact, stark naked.
Thank-you for the insight; I truly didn’t know the angles you described.