[blam]

This stupidity must be stopped.

[rey]

Hey, maybe they can do this for pilots and doctors too?

[blam]

The University Dilemma: America’s leftist universities are indoctrinating, not teaching, and they intend to keep it that why by deliberately excluding qualified conservatives

[GOPJ]

Harvard has an opportunity here ...

All current Harvard professors should be suspended.

Anyone with a PhD in the country will be allowed to apply for their jobs.

All Harvard teaching jobs - full professors down to teaching interns - will be given out based on a random drawing of people holding PhD’s... Jobs will be secure for 4 years - then the process is repeated...

Let’s see the effect this choice would have on Harvard’s status, ability to educate, and their quality of alumni..

[BobL]

Do they support the same for doctors, or engineers?

[chuckee]

Random selection has its advantages, provided everyone is treated equally once admitted and the university does not reduce their academic standards to lower qualified entrants (let them flunk out). as well as disadvantages. I like the idea that all have a chance in gaining entry. I think Asians will have a better chance of increasing their numbers at the Ivy Leagues because their pool of candidates will be large as they gravitate to the better schools and thus have a better chance of being selected. Whites also, knowing that they will not be discriminated against vs people of color.Once underqualified blacks and hispanics who are randomly selected start flunking out in high numbers, they will start applying to schools that are more matched to their qualifications and have a better chance of succeeding. The rich will not be able to buy their way in

[Ahithophel]

“Never mind optional standardized tests. If you show interest, your name goes in a big hat.”

Moving along this axis of idiocy, never mind NFL tryouts, MCATs, LSATs, driver license tests, board certifications of medical specialties, USGA qualifiers, PGA Q-school, local, state and national elections, and the list goes on. "We'll just pull the winners from a big hat holding the names anyone showing interest."

[Gnome1949]

I believe all of this is leading to the end of college as a ticket to success. Colleges are destroying themselves and should be allowed to do so.

Many college graduates are not equipped for the real world so reducing the importance of a college degree is a good thing.

It is becoming more and more clear colleges are propaganda mills warping the thinking of their graduates.