I have spent many years in an around academia, including recent years where the bottom has fallen out of standards and in the hyper-PC leftism that has infected our institutions.
Much of academia today is not based on facts, truth, or especially - the laws of God. It is nothing but a charade of self-stroking and self-serving narcissism.
Academia (universities and colleges) teach garbage in much of their classrooms. Political garbage mixed with lies that they can bend to their own will and sins.
History, social sciences, politics, you name it. They have morphed all of these into stews of black supremacy, feminism, homosexuality, Hispanic supremacy, and the like. They drape their garbage with the thin veneer of "scholarship" - but everyone knows it is a joke. And deep down, so do they. This bothers them, especially when their charade is exposed by real scholarship and study.
The hard sciences have been beyond their reach, because they teach God's truth. You cannot "spin" Differential Equations, Heat Transfer, Metallurgy, Thermodynamics, or Bernoulli's Equation.
So now they are going to target engineering, because not only is it male dominated (Asians and European-Americans make up the vast majority of its students), but because the hard sciences that have not been completely infected by PC expose their own lies and the sham of "scholarship."