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Christopher F. Rufo's avatar

The standards have been so degraded, it will be difficult at first to establish new ones. But we can look both to the great universities of the past, as well as some standout universities of the present, such as Hillsdale. We've had universities in the West for 1,000 years—we simply have to look for the essence.

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Steve Allard's avatar

Agreed, standards have vectored way off course to support the desired statistical DEI outcomes. I worked in China and taught at the undergraduate level in South Korea for 12 years. When you compare what is going on with students in those countries with American student's, academic grit is roughly 50% due to DEI influences in USA.

The structure that many US based students require to complete simple assignments has many on the cognitive level of a nursing care patient. I surmise that it is at the high school level where the seeds of DEI retardation are sewn...

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