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That's an impressive list of tired clichés. You did, however, forget to complain about the humanities ("Oh, the humanities!"). You did mention "identity based

That's an impressive list of tired clichés. You did, however, forget to complain about the humanities ("Oh, the humanities!"). You did mention "identity based criteria", which is, indeed, a terrible scourge of the modern universities, as compared to the days of yore (i. e. until the 70s or 80s, or, as they are sometimes called, "the first 560 years of the modern university"), where everyone, including women, non-white people, and everyone not born to the richest 5% were famously admitted on exactly the same criteria as real people. But it doesn't count unless you also crack a joke about Judith Butler or Hannah Arendt.

s5300 6y ago
>Inflate the administration body, filling the University with a majority of career bureaucrats who contribute nothing to research, teaching or learning. Then inflate tuitions to unaffordable levels so you can pay for the bureaucrats. Next, drop merit requirements for (-both-) students All of this is correct. If you're refuting this, you either don't pay attention to anything, are some old fudder who went to uni 35+ years ago, or are living in a gigantically blown bubble.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 6y ago
  > If you're refuting this, you either don't pay attention to anything, are some old fudder who went to uni 35+ years ago, or are living in a gigantically blown bubble. I haven't paid attention to the latest fads, but when I went to Uni 35+ years ago, "gigantically blown" bubbles were regarded to be superior to small bubbles, as far as intellectual universes are concerned.