Colleges Skirt the Law, Continue Indoctrinating Students

Something I ran into a lot in the military: the refusal to establish standards. "What would you like?" and "What's the minimum so I can excel at the skill?" are verboten in many commands because the "leadership" wants the option of claiming that any performance is not good enough. They never establish a baseline, or sabotage the preexisting one with "We can do better" without quantifying what constitutes better. It also allowed commanders and SNCOs to play favorites--the unmarried and childless man who makes 85% is not good enough while the single mother who makes 70% is an excellent performer. And yes, I've seen that happen more than once. There is an argument to be made that some will meet the standard and stop there, that's a real thing. However the refusal to set ANY standard is infinitely worse because success and failure are a matter of the emotion of the moment. CRT et al. are the same way: if you refuse to define the standard, you never have to answer why success isn't rewarded.