Higher Ed in a nutshell. Tenured faculty get paid to do nothing other than pen doodles on items no one cares about.
The reason higher ed academicians are so passionate when they discuss policy is because there is so little at stake.
I agree with your statements. But there are good professors in both institutions.
UT is the seat of liberalism in the State of Texas.
That is why the old hippies at Texas Monthly see this as such a horrible development.