I have been following the conservative movement for 50 years and for that whole time it has been vocally hostile toward universities. That is a fact. >What is

I have been following the conservative movement for 50 years and for that whole time it has been vocally hostile toward universities. That is a fact. >What is a 'financial corporation'? Is there a non-financial corporation that exists? A financial corporation is one that makes its money from services involving money, such as loans or managing pension funds. I find it very hard to believe you didn't know that. >How have universities abandoned education to favor entrepreneurship? They put the focus on hiring non-teaching staff, earning money from patents, and forming profit-making partnerships with corporations, and neglect teaching, such as substituting low-paid adjuncts for regular staff. I find I hard to believe you didn't know those changes have been going on. >How were universities previously not like businesses For centuries, since their founding, universities saw themselves as engaged in a service to society, like churches or charities, and university presidents earned a modest middle class living. It is only within recent decades that they decided to maximize cash flow. You really didn't know that? >how do student loans - which have existed for quite some time - make them be 'be like businesses'? Students become like customers. The goal is to get as much money from them, and loans make this easier. > If the axes for conservatism are democracy, the free market and religion, where do people who only care about 1 or 2 of those items fall? They attack the universities for only 1 or 2 reasons. >Since college enrollment is rising significantly, how is it keeping people out of universities? Conservatives have conflicting goals here. Because they think universities are hotbeds of marxism, they want to keep students out. Because they see them as recently becoming hotbeds of entrepreneurialship, they want to support them. Besides, conservatives, fortunately, are not the only factor at work. I take it you are a conservative. Why don't you say what you think of universities today, like how they are good or bad?