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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 3132953, member: 173"]
Colleges in general have watered down the value of degrees.  I work with a guy who I would say is the best engineer and most intelligent person I've ever worked with.  He and I have been recruiting at northeastern colleges the last two months; at his alma mater I noticed that literally nobody had a GPA below 3.5, and most were 3.9ish.  I asked him what his was 25 years ago, and it was a 3.3.  It's extremely doubtful that students today are that much better - colleges have massively inflated grades.  With the graduation rates at some schools now, it looks like it's impossible to flunk out - the only way to get booted is if you stop paying the college your semi-annual tribute.

What happened at UNC is an embarrassment- but it's really just the logical end of the function colleges now serve.  They don't exist to educate (although they focus a ton of effort on maintaining that myth) - they exist to hand out papers required for employment for many jobs in America.  The entire system is broken; tragically I doubt most people will realize how broken until bridges and buildings start falling down.  By that point it will probably be too late to fix.
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