I think college admission needs to be stricter and the institutions need to be examined for fraud.
A bachelor degree means nothing because everyone has one and soon, a master's degree will be in the boat. This is because the job market is much more saturated with people who have degrees who shouldn't and they're unqualified for most professional jobs. Instead of a flood gate of everybody is allowed in, admission needs to be dammed up and in order to give disenfranchised people the opportunity, we need more robust scholarship/grant programs that will help them.
There is a gloat of people who have essentially cheated or coasted their way through college without learning the valuable skills and lessons of getting their degree, which is essentially, critical thinking. Instead, these students have attempted to speed-run through the higher education system to get the bare minimum requirements to go into the work force.
People accuse colleges of gate keeping, but that isn't really the case anymore. In fact, their business models seem to be more geared to allowing anyone and everyone in to collect more tuition while also incentivizing to failing students that they can somehow magically pass their math class on the 5th retake. That's not student support, that's collecting a paycheck. Which makes me think the federal government does need to open investigation into the higher education system to search for fraud.
It's one of the many other institutions in the US that once was credited as being cutting edge and now it feels sketchy. Both by admin and students. I hate it.