I didn't articulate that well- it wasn't a comment on my experience or on college experience generally. I do think the operational dynamics of colleges have ch

I didn't articulate that well- it wasn't a comment on my experience or on college experience generally. I do think the operational dynamics of colleges have changed, and the parent comment about the essence of education being someone at a whiteboard in a room- I just don't think that's sufficiently true anymore. It's not what people pay for. But more to the point- The Olive Garden analogy is what (I think) will happen. That prognostication is in line generally with the business trajectory that the US solves for. All businesses are ultimately scaled and financialized. So- as small private colleges will be the first to fail, their brands and their nostalgia will be picked up by the educational equivalent of restaurant chain operations. Chain operations will produce a product people will pay for- lots of people in the US go to chain restaurants- but the end result is going to be considerably different than what used to be called the college experience. There is no legal or financial machinery in the US to defend the small. And that's too bad. Cheers.