How are you going to develop good professors if you only engage them as temps? That's one of the key things that separates a great university from a teaching c

How are you going to develop good professors if you only engage them as temps? That's one of the key things that separates a great university from a teaching college. Investments in the long-term careers of research professors. Teaching is just one of their responsibilities; they also research and publish. Same for their grad students. That takes subsidies that come in part out of undergrad tuition. So sure, if you cut that out you're going to have cheaper tuition. But if this model were actually adopted on a wide scale, you'd also dry up the supply of great professors. As an exceptional case it might work, but only by exploiting the investments of other institutions. Very "silicon valley libertarian" in that respect.