Universities Suffer a Credibility Collapse. By Glenn Reynolds.

So the Supreme Court has ruled against Harvard and UNC, and in the process fatally wounded the “diversity” and “affirmative action” practices of most every higher education institution in America.

There’s a lot to say about that, but I want to mark one important point: This ruling represents a drastic retreat in the social position of higher education. …

Media accounts I’ve seen have tended to suggest that the Supreme Court had found that “diversity” is a compelling interest, sufficient to justify overriding the Constitution’s ban on racial discrimination. …

But no longer. As the majority opinion today noted: “The universities’ main response to these criticisms is ‘trust us.’ They assert that universities are owed deference when using race to benefit some applicants but not others. While this Court has recognized a “tradition of giving a degree of deference to a university’s academic decisions,” it has made clear that deference must exist ‘within constitutionally prescribed limits.’” …

The universities were allowed to discriminate in defiance of the constitution because they were regarded as experts in the “problem.” But who trusts higher education anymore? Certainly not the US Supreme Court.

With 57 genders, coloring books and crying rooms for election results, endless crusades against “whiteness” and “heterosexism,” and the like, the notion of deferring to the educational seriousness and expertise of those in charge of the asylums of higher ed seemed much less appealing.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make ridiculous. But higher education has supplied the ridiculousness itself. …

This shows in popular culture as well. Higher education is mocked more, treated as a waste of money, a place where henpecked professors are afraid to say anything, and where administrators live high while students learn nothing. Polls indicated that a lot of people agree. It’s unsurprising that we’re seeing less respect in the courts, too.

Woke arose from US universities (colleges). Perhaps this will check their wicked ways.