I graduated from UC Berkeley in 1965. Looks like nothing has changed. It was a crap hole when I went there and it still is. The “professors” don’t teach, they do their research and publish the crap with grant money while the Teaching Assistants ( mostly foreign students) teach the undergraduates. All the while dragging down mid to high six figure salaries plus gold-plated benefits.
This seems to be the pattern in higher ed. Here in Ohio, they are going to be dealing with those high salaries and mini work weeks if we can keep SB5, which has made us fiscally solvent for the first time in a while. California is particularly egregious. I read of one person (an athletic director?) in California who was pulling down $2 million in salary.