The first college Open Enrollment policy that I know of was the City University of New York (CUNY) n the Fall of 1971. Anyone who wanted to enroll was told to “come on down.” Large numbers of students who couldn’t read a simple sentence took their classroom seats next to solid A students. The results were a disaster for all the students and thier professors. These schools added some remedial help within a year or so, but these institutions were never the same again.
Whoops. That should have read “THEIR professors.”