Any university should be able to hire and fire teaching professors at will if they're not doing a satisfactory job. Clearly this professor wasn't. I don't feel like anyone was cheated.
I didn't say they can't. But they are not a respectable university any longer nor are they considered elite. You have to assume that affirmative action has thinned the talent at the university to the point the student body can no longer get through the rigor that separated the smart kids from the elite kids. Because the university is graded on the quality of student and the quality of student continues to decline, these once elite universities are fading.
> You have to assume that affirmative action has thinned the talent at the university to the point the student body can no longer get through the rigor that separated the smart kids from the elite kids
Oh, do you? So affirmative action has pushed out the elite whites and now mediocrity reigns?
> Oh, do you? So affirmative action has pushed out the elite whites and now mediocrity reigns?
It's actually pushed out mainly elite Asians. Just look at acceptance rates and the scores required to get in based on race and sex. Asians of both sexes have to far surpass everyone else and white males in particular have to as well.
Because of this, the student body is made up of more and more people that may be quite smart, but are not elite. They don't belong in these institutions and the institutions can no longer be considered elite because their student body no longer is.
The evidence is things like this story. The student body has weakened in intellectual ability enough to the point that this institution felt compelled to lower their standard, which also means American universities have lost some standing globally.
I can only expect that the students coming from these institutions are not at the level they used to be.
