Agreed, this is the best summary article I have ever read on the economic trends in US higher ed. One conclusion seems to be that at the non-elite schools like

Agreed, this is the best summary article I have ever read on the economic trends in US higher ed. One conclusion seems to be that at the non-elite schools like URI, my local state university, traditional liberal arts education will get starved into obscurity because it doesn't train students for a career. Learning how to think and write clearly and do scholarly research will no longer be an important part of a college education.