I think you're at least mostly if not entirely on the money with what is happening at universities right now, but that doesn't make it better. I subscribe to Br

I think you're at least mostly if not entirely on the money with what is happening at universities right now, but that doesn't make it better. I subscribe to Bryan Caplan's theory of the 'signalling model of education'. My personal position is that universities should be exclusively focused on academic and non-applied science activities. They should almost entirely be liberal arts, and un-subsidized, probably focusing more on part-time studies and 2-3 year programs than degrees. This would be a model of university education as a venue for personal growth, and I would have liked to attend a university like this. I would be against subsidizing the technical institutes (which would teach engineering, computer science, etc.), but would understand the reasoning in favor of it.