Fragmenting the community of scholars

Let the Segregation Commence by John Leo:

"But the core reason for separatist graduations is the obvious one: on campus, assimilation is a hostile force, the domestic version of American imperialism. On many campuses, identity-group training begins with separate freshman orientation programs for nonwhites, who arrive earlier and are encouraged to bond before the first Caucasian freshmen arrive."

Institutional racism, in my long ago student days, was the idea that universities and other institutions ignored minorities and their special needs or desires. Things have now flipped 180 degrees/ John Leo notes that UCLA now offers, in addition to the mass graduation ceremony for all student, so many special ceremonies for various ethnicities, orientations and niche subject matter that avoiding schedule conflicts is difficult. One could hardly argue with Leo's conclusion:

As in so many areas of American life, the preposterous is now normal.