It’s interesting to me that these criticisms come mostly from the right when they’re essentially the result of a corporate attitude towards universities, where

It’s interesting to me that these criticisms come mostly from the right when they’re essentially the result of a corporate attitude towards universities, where rather than being so heavily subsidized that they are essentially free for the populace, and sheltered from popular opinion, universities are constantly competing for student attention, investment resources, prestige, and cooperation from industry. As a result the complained-about behaviors are essentially things we see in competitive industry — insincere lip service to diversity as advertisement, cutthroat behavior and outright cheating to attain status, self-congratulation for unremarkable or fake accomplishments, fiefdom-building, and general focus on profits above any semblance of a mission. But an effort to restore an academic environment would probably be rejected as leaving academics unaccountable to the market as they instruct the next generation.