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The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear challenges to the admissions process at Harvard and University of North Carolina, presenting the most serious threat in decades to the use of affirmative action by the nation's public and private colleges and universities.
Despite similar challenges, the court has repeatedly upheld affirmative action in the past. But two liberal justices who were key to those decisions are gone — Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Their replacements, Trump appointees Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett are conservative and considered less likely to find the practice constitutional.
It’s too late. NASA is a perfect example of the scope of this AA disaster. They have to contract out the majority of the engineering. An agency that I thought was infallible when I was a kid.
I finished college in 2013 at a major university in the mid-west -- it was not a challenge at all.
It was extremely easy, the assignments were a breeze, there was nothing that was really all that difficult. I could loaf around most of the time and finish all my assignments at the last minute and still graduated with a 3.8 GPA. I honestly thought high school was more difficult.
The majority of colleges and universities have been dumbed-down.
As a result, there is an over-abundance of college degree holders which has caused the value of a degree to decrease dramatically. In many colleges today, simply completing an assignment will get you an automatic A.
Some professors aren't even grading for quality of work.
The bar has been lowered greatly.
And on top of that, merit is thrown out the window in favor of diversity.
And the bar has to be lowered so some of those minorities can get degrees.
It’s too late. NASA is a perfect example of the scope of this AA disaster. They have to contract out the majority of the engineering. An agency that I thought was infallible when I was a kid.
They contract out because of the budget for NASA to less than 1% of annual spending, space is expensive. They do like most of the Government does now which makes sense to me given the politics.
Imagine a story that comes out tomorrow that states: NASA hires 100 engineers and 200+ staff and planned expansion in Alabama, Texas, and Florida. Republicans and people here would obliterate the initiative as bloated spending, government waste, and more government workers draining the coffers and being lazy employees. But that is what NASA would need to do unless it contracts out the work.
Also, I imagine the "Space Force" will take up most of the duties of NASA on the military / Government business side. NASA will eventually become the FAA of space.
But if you outsource it you avoid all that negative press and politicians (especially Republican politicians) like it because no "Government workers" were added and people for some reason do not respond to headlines of expensive government "contracts" like they do "government workers". Which is funny considering Federal contracts usually budget in the pay scale and insurance coverage in the contracts that the feds would give anyway.
It’s too late. NASA is a perfect example of the scope of this AA disaster. They have to contract out the majority of the engineering. An agency that I thought was infallible when I was a kid.
It was and employed some of the brightest Americans.
Now NASA relies on SpaceX.
I will never forget the news broadcasts about so many students at Yale who were upset over Halloween costumes and were at an administrator as a way of showing an extreme lack of respect https://www.insidehighered.com/news/...ch-there-again. * It was about this time that the term "snowflakes" became part of the general vocabulary.
What struck me was that the students protesting the e-mail that was in support of free expression but asked for sensitivity in choosing costumes were so obviously not the sort of people who would have been admitted to universities of any kind until fairly recently, meaning that they seemed to me to be of just average intelligence. So, in my mind, not only were they probably admitted primarily due to AA, but they apparently had no appreciation for their good fortune.
Academy admission should be based of grade not based the color of your skin.
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