You're right - I'm simplifying considerably. College is not for everyone, and there are many positive life-changing things one can do that don't involve going t

You're right - I'm simplifying considerably. College is not for everyone, and there are many positive life-changing things one can do that don't involve going to university. The thing is that even at universities like Harvard, Oxford, MIT, etc there's considerable debate over what the university itself should be doing. The Harvard Business School, for example, is culturally (and geographically) a world apart from the undergraduate programme. Trying to distill what a university should become is hard, because there are so many stakeholders with vastly differing views.