Absolutely. The consumerization of higher education affects all aspects of collegiate life. Proper discourse is seen as inefficient, prone to upsetting the "w

Absolutely. The consumerization of higher education affects all aspects of collegiate life. Proper discourse is seen as inefficient, prone to upsetting the "workforce", or disagreeable to funding sources. Issues that would be considering opportunities to teach, discuss, or research are now discussed in terms of student gains, funding gains, dropout rates, etc. > This is a matter of public policy and society should be regulating this stuff. Now try doing that in a partisan political climate, where we can't even agree that creationism should not be on any curriculum. You're right there really isn't much of a chance of changing this any time soon. As the author puts it, "[right] now, there's nothing much to do other than sit on our hands and wait for the ascension of conservative political backlash...", so we're just gonna have to wait/hope for the tide to turn.