As to different types of universities, the private ones still have boards of directors that tend to be dominated by businessmen, and of course the money in thei

As to different types of universities, the private ones still have boards of directors that tend to be dominated by businessmen, and of course the money in their endowments mostly come from rich businessmen. And as to the problem of demographics, as others have pointed out they should have handled this by remaining lean in expenses but instead went the opposite direction. You're right there are different types of conservatives. But the conservative politicians are almost all strongly pro-corporate. That is partly because that is where they get a lot of their campaign contribution. Conservatives who don't make the free market central I think should instead be labeled traditionalists.