I witnessed a situation when "surplus" physicists employed by the university were looking for some better justification of their employment and lobbied hard for

I witnessed a situation when "surplus" physicists employed by the university were looking for some better justification of their employment and lobbied hard for extensive mandatory physics courses for maths and informatics majors. In the extent of, say, 20 % of the entire curriculum. Their proposals were beaten back, but it took a lot of effort. Czechia, 1998-1999. No tuition involved, study was still completely financed by the taxpayer.