Pandemic-To-Permanent

[StoicJ]

As for the diversity point: who, exactly, is going to demand these metrics be realized. Maybe the government, but I doubt it. The marketplace?  Does the author really think that students will make diversity the main criteria in selecting a college?  I am a liberal, I believe in affirmative action, and even I think that is idiotic. 17-18 year old KIDS will go to where they want to go to school, the school where their friends are going, the school that offers their degree program, the school that is an area/city/geographical area they like, that is highly ranked, that is near to home/far from home, that is affordable, that is easy/hard. After taking ALL of that into consideration, maybe they consider diversity.  Don’t get me wrong, if there is effectively no diversity, people who identify with a particular minority might be dissuaded from attending. I could see not wanting to be a black woman at a school where 99% of students are white males. But that begs the original question, who, besides the minority students, are going to really do anything about it?

Who is going to demand compliance with these metrics? 

The government? Yes. 

Students? Yes.

Woke management in corporations who probably for the most part believe all this stuff but in any case can afford to take the hit by not employing the most productive staff but make out in the end by holding on to market share by keeping out smaller competitors who cannot afford the early stage inefficiencies  ? Yes.

"But that begs the original question, who, besides the minority students, are going to really do anything about it?"
It's not even the minority students. My impression is there are FAR more white SJWs pushing this than actual minority students. FWIW, the white male is not the largest race/sex student demo in the U.S.A., that "honor" has belonged to the white female for at LEAST the last 30 years.