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Lowering standards for those in charge will have a ripple effect on those coming out with a diploma being lower ability students.

Good luck enforcing standards when your own staff/deans violate them.

Lt Col Charlie Brown Lowering standards will always backfire but for some reason, the military still hasn't learned any lessons from doing so. Unfortunately, it will take more than one generation to right the ship but it has now become the norm to change standards to increase throughput and to keep attrition numbers to a minimum.