I may be wrong, but I suspect that Cal State is being redesigned to be more like high school level used to be. As for remedial courses, I can remember when there was no such thing!
I maintain that the only thing that will restore this nation is a complete collapse of the *system* and then a miraculous rebirth ...based on God.
When I was in college years ago, the remedial classes (all contained in one building on campus) were all filled with preferred minorities (black, Hispanic, women); there was a good explanation for that. White/Asian men that would have required “remediation” had been rejected outright by the college; those classes were designed to bring preferred minorities up to the level of a white/Asian male high school graduate (and it could take a couple of years).