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<blockquote data-quote="DELACROIX" data-source="post: 5808017" data-attributes="member: 49065">I recently attended an alumni party at my old College, basically it was just a fund raising event.&nbsp; &nbsp; I was one of the oldest participants there, left the College in 1980 used the old GI bill for 4 years.&nbsp; What struck me first was the lack of basic skills presented by their graduates.&nbsp; I didn’t blame the students but did some research on the faculty studied their individual works or projects.&nbsp; What I discovered was they were for the most part not the most skilled individuals out there, they were products of the academic community, they played the system because they fit the mold.The whole DEI dogma was brought up in every presentation, made us old white males uncomfortable, like we were dinosaurs.&nbsp; The real problem with destroying or ignoring past history solely on race or gender is you replace it with mediocre work or thought. The Colleges and Universities are now run by bureaucrats who are not willing or able to be at the top of their fields.&nbsp; Teaching positions are filled now due to their ethnic backgrounds or their selected racial/sexual identities. (His, Her, She pronouns).&nbsp; Hell we did that in our recent contract language as proof of how prevalent this mindset is promoted.There has to be a balance to level some of the playing fields, but the way things are going it will only cause resentment from those left out because their skin color was White or they identify with Judeo Christian beliefs of right and wrong.I recently retired and will be going back to the trade I learned 45 years ago which I still participated in while I was working full time at UPS.&nbsp; It will be fun to navigate some of the obstacles that will be prevalent just because of my skin color or age, really looking forward to educating my younger peers.&nbsp; It will not work canceling skill levels or talents to lower some imaginary bars for others, it will eventually show up no matter how much you try to suppress it..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DELACROIX, post: 5808017, member: 49065"] I recently attended an alumni party at my old College, basically it was just a fund raising event. I was one of the oldest participants there, left the College in 1980 used the old GI bill for 4 years. What struck me first was the lack of basic skills presented by their graduates. I didn’t blame the students but did some research on the faculty studied their individual works or projects. What I discovered was they were for the most part not the most skilled individuals out there, they were products of the academic community, they played the system because they fit the mold. The whole DEI dogma was brought up in every presentation, made us old white males uncomfortable, like we were dinosaurs. The real problem with destroying or ignoring past history solely on race or gender is you replace it with mediocre work or thought. The Colleges and Universities are now run by bureaucrats who are not willing or able to be at the top of their fields. Teaching positions are filled now due to their ethnic backgrounds or their selected racial/sexual identities. (His, Her, She pronouns). Hell we did that in our recent contract language as proof of how prevalent this mindset is promoted. There has to be a balance to level some of the playing fields, but the way things are going it will only cause resentment from those left out because their skin color was White or they identify with Judeo Christian beliefs of right and wrong. I recently retired and will be going back to the trade I learned 45 years ago which I still participated in while I was working full time at UPS. It will be fun to navigate some of the obstacles that will be prevalent just because of my skin color or age, really looking forward to educating my younger peers. It will not work canceling skill levels or talents to lower some imaginary bars for others, it will eventually show up no matter how much you try to suppress it.. [/QUOTE]

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