The social engineers responded to the embarrassing affirmative-action graduation rates by degrading everyone's course of study. General requirements were dropped. Junk majors were created. They proliferated until even the most ill-prepared student could graduate. Recent work on wages shows how badly students have been robbed.
Employers pay for concrete knowledge.
Economists Jeff Grogger and Eric Eide, found that a great deal of the increase in the value of a college degree in the 1980s resulted from the increase in engineering and science majors between 1976 and 1984. The data say yes. Wasting four years of a young person's life by bending admission standards so that one can admire one's devotion to inclusiveness is a selfish indulgence rampant in higher education. If Representative Chavez really cared about students he would agree with Attorney General Norton. Race has no place in college admissions.