Maybe with many people pulling their children out of gov’t schools, we’re seeing the who pays for the bar tab in real life.
Knowing a few profs with stories to tell, I can say that new kids in college are not ready.
Walter Williams use to discuss this stuff when he subbed for Rush and in opinion articles he wrote. It wasn't called DEI back then, but is the same thing. It just hurt the student if the university accepted the student to meet a quota. Instead of failing at a top notch university, the student would likely have a better outcome at a second tier university.