The New York Times reports that “CUNY Plans to Raise Its Admissions Standards.”

Some professors opposed the new plan on grounds it would prevent low-income and black and Hispanic students from entering undergrad programs. “This is turning the university into more of a middle-class university,” one City College professor lamented.

Bruce Kesler, a Brooklyn College alum, counters:

“Duh! That’s the mission objective of C.U.N.Y., to give opportunities to the poor to join the middle class, and upper. C.U.N.Y. graduates, including General Powell, and the country benefited from C.U.N.Y.’s [past] high standards.”