Authored by Mike McDaniel via AmericanThinker.com,
During my second career teaching high school English, I noticed several darkly funny but disturbing trends in “higher” education. They were fueled by three primary drivers: abandoning merit, the federal government taking over the student loan industry, and DEI hysteria.
It was Barack Obama who federalized the student loan industry, pushing the idea that everyone should go to college.
To make that idea a reality, it was necessary for the government to guarantee student loans.
That had plenty of unfortunate and foreseeable effects. Because Colleges no longer had any financial skin in the game, they went on a mad administrator-hiring binge, which required enormous amounts of money, which required unprecedented numbers of students.
Combined with a faux-religious devotion to DEI, colleges admitted all manner of people who in past years would have reasonably been found to be poorly suited to do college-level work. To cover this, it was necessary to do away with any sort of predictive testing like the SAT. All that was required for college admission was a student loan, unless one was a white male applying at an Ivy League school. Those guys, regardless of academic qualification, were often denied.
Enormous DEI departments with all manner of administrators and functionaries were established, and hundreds of millions were wasted on DEI gurus imported to inspire them.
So unprepared were so many, colleges were forced to establish remedi
