Sounds like most of this is just common sense.
One of my kids went to a small, private engineering school. Academics was all they offered. No DEI garbage, no sports garbage, just school. He had classes in his major as a Freshman, not as a junior.
The school had diversity in students but they didn’t make a big deal about it.
They did school. That’s all.
Most students end up working at NSA or NASA. A professor recommended my son to NASA for his college job.
“common sense is usually a mutally exclusive term and in the end is neither” L.Star