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This seems inevitable to me for the simple reason that universities, like medical care, have priced themselves out of the range of anyone but the rich. At the same time, their preoccupation with leftwing causes and PC has made them ever less relevant to the real world. We have graduated probably close to a decade's worth of students who leave school with enormous debts that will burden them for years to come but who have next to no job prospects. Parents are getting sick and tired of mortgaging their own futures to pay for a supposedly elite education only to have their kids show up and want their old room back because they can't get a job. The principal purpose of universities now is to provide a halfway house for students on the way to adulthood, a relatively safe place to experiment with sex and drugs and radical politics before a lifetime of drudgery. Many will be loath to give that up, as will the university faculties who live large off parents and the federal government. The truth is, only the most elite of elite universities are worth the money, and they are worth it only because of the connections students can make there.
AAA:The truth is, only the most elite of elite universities are worth the money, and they are worth it only because of the connections students can make there. IMHO the most important part of any ones intellect is creativity and universities don't teach that.