True. Trust me. I worked on a college campus in the college of liberal arts as secretary to an assistant dean and things haven't changed a bit since I worked there. They say teaching is a noble career - liberal arts was not noble (although the professors thought they were). Summers were spent in different parts of the world and preparing papers on your particular field i.e. language studies in Europe, digs in Egypt - all thanks to tuition. Maybe that wasn't so bad but considering the salaries those trips should have been on their own time.
{Professors live like entitled gentry] all thanks to tuition.Tuition? That's just the cutsie cover term. The reality is that Professors and University staff live like a noble class because they have created and entrapped a serf and slave class. Who are those who labor most of their lifetime in servitude to support the Gentry of Academia? The students, shackled to nigh unpayable mountains of student loans. Those fewer and fewer who manage to pay off those loans in under 14 years are the serfs. Those shacked longer, including many whose paltry wages are then reduced further by garnishment--they are in all practical effect--slaves.
Work for or retire from a University and you are in hard truth a slave-owner!
Colleges and Universities have helped destroy the concept of value by establishing the notion that all “knowledge” has some value, and, indeed, in many cases the more obscure and esoteric the knowledge is, the more it is celebrated and promoted.