What's The Opposite of Diversity?

The fake diploma can be one's undoing as happened to someone at the institution where I used to teach.

For years, this person claimed to have a degree which she didn't actually earn. She worked her way up to department head and was active in the profession she sneaked her way into.

With time, people slowly caught on that she wasn't what she portrayed herself to be, making mistakes that someone with a proper education in that business wouldn't do. She resigned her job under mysterious circumstances and disappeared but we eventually found out what happened.

The long arm of the law caught up with her and she was found guilty of fraud.

See, you make my case.
What would be the cost benefit/loss of holding that job for years, versus a white collar criminal conviction?
After all being a convicted con artist is just a prerequisite for a political career.

In her case, she was in a business that affected public safety. If nothing else, she jeopardized people's lives.

Combining STEM with polytech schools makes a lot more sense than combining them with liberals arts.

That's what summer jobs are for. While I was an undergrad in mechanical engineering, I spent 3 summers at an oil refinery. During my second time there, I worked with pipefitters and welders and learned, among other things, how to cut and thread pipe and how to wear and use a Scott air pack.

During my senior undergrad year, I sang with one of the university choirs. At least a third of the members were studying either engineering or one of the physical sciences.

"In her case, she was in a business that affected public safety. If nothing else, she jeopardized people's lives."

Have you paid any attention to who we have in charge in so much of our"Public Safety"?
If we had some minimum competence we would be obscenely grateful.

Competence with FAKE credentials would be far less dangerous.Government and Human Resources of large companies is where the useless products of University go to gloat.
Ensuring large groups of useless eaters ,actively organizing circle jerks at everyone else's expense.
And actively screening out the competent and organized , because they will make the rest "Look Bad".

The benefits of summer jobs and work terms are good but I think more collaboration between STEMs, techs and trades would be even better. OTOH, I'm not sure there's much value in modern day liberal arts classes for STEM. In the past there was benefit of mingling with female students in social sciences and humanities but nowadays this just opens these guys up to a title IX persecution. I suspect women taking radiology, practical nursing, dental assisting/hygenist, other applied science education and such at polytechs aren't as neurotic.

The close proximity of STEMs to non-STEMs at university also allows the grievance mongers easy access to meddling (infesting?) science departments.

Competence with FAKE credentials would be far less dangerous.

If they were competent, why didn't they get the credentials?

As a professional engineer, I hear of cases in which someone tries to pass themselves off as such even though they don't have the qualifications. Legislation is quite specific about that and those people are prosecuted when caught.

"... they'd learn more from trades and tech than social science and humanities." The sad part for the future is that the Marxists are injecting social justice ideology into these hard science courses.

Perhaps. It would be interesting to see a comparison between gender or ethnic studies majors compared to dental assistants or veterinary techs.

I'm going to venture out on a fairly sturdy limb that the polytech students aren't learning about toxic masculinity, the evils of whiteness, the patriarchy, colonialism or that biological sex is a social construct. So, they'll be starting out with a lot less nonsensical baggage learned at post-secondary school.

I'm going to venture out on a fairly sturdy limb that the polytech students aren't learning about toxic masculinity, the evils of whiteness, the patriarchy, colonialism or that biological sex is a social construct.

They certainly weren't while I was teaching, but they were indoctrinated into other things equally as damaging. For example, they believed they were taught all about idiocies such as team-building.

After the institution I was at adopted the "student as customer" doctrine, every apprentice fascist signed up to get on the gravy train. Nearly every department I knew of has its own "quality commissar".

Every incompetent, gold-bricking student figured that he or she could order me about, just like the little Mao-lings the institution wanted them to be.

If they tried those sorts of stunts in the real world, there would be a good chance that they'd be handed little slips of paper that were coloured pink.

The sad part for the future is that the Marxists are injecting social justice ideology into these hard science courses.

That started in engineering after the Marc Lepine/Gamil Gharbi incident. I heard that freshman engineering students at my alma mater had to take courses in "women's issues" as part of their curriculum.