There’s a purpose for two-year community colleges where an occupational theme would help the lesser of society’s public education system achieve something of value.
Pushing the same crowd of lessers into a four-year college program....dumbing the program down to meet the lesser capability....and just accepting this as normal is a bogus attitude.
This is why we now have four-year graduates working as the rental car franchise manager at various airports....a job which until the early 1990s was simply a high school graduate guy in his forties or fifties. Such managers now utilize their college skills to note the trend with Fords or Chevys....or just making schedules for the crew to clean the cars when they are turned in.
Even worse, four-year schools have a whole array of “remedial classes” that the tokens are required to take to bring them up to a high-school graduate level (white guys aren’t in those classes because they are rejected outright); they don’t count as credits, and are an indistry unto themselves.
When I was in school people I knew that went to community colleges often did so briefly because their state schools of choice had initially rejected them; after a semester or two they could transfer into a four-year school. Nowadays I see community colleges getting renewed life from 1) people who can’t afford state schools, but are college-oriented, and 2) people looking for work in a field that requires college - like police officers - but an associates degree will fulfill the requirement.
Lowering the standards for preferred minorities to enter four-year schools is just a business decision; whether by grants, financial aid, or loans, the schools are “selling” seats. Private schools end up with the least-qualified, as they’re forced at this point to take anyone willing to pay.