And heeeeere come the tuition hikes . . . .!
If bossism and patronage and offices for sale are good enough for Ci-cago, they’re good enough, by golly, for Academe.
How will the professional idolaters of the One be rewarded otherwise?
Money for “education” sounds like a good idea, but:
1) IMO, even if the USA produces great engineers, the powers that be will find excuses to import workers to replace them, or ship the jobs overseas. And since students know that, more of them will go into other fields, like law, and again IMO, we don’t need more lawyers.
2) As another poster pointed out, universities have replaced History with “Herstory,” various ethnic studies, etc. Not entirely, but IMO, to a disturbing extent.
3) Two words: William Ayers.