One good way to start getting academia back is to borrow a tool Obama used to shut down for-profit vocational colleges - no Federal funding or loans unless the institution can prove that a very high percentage of a degree program’s attendees find jobs in their field of study upon graduation.
Watch what happens to academia when they add “produce employment proof or perish” gets added to the classic “publish or perish”.
If only the federal beaurocracy which really drives these things, wasn’t in control, in spite of President Trump. We really need that swamp drained.
Watch what happens to academia when they add “produce employment proof or perish” gets added to the classic “publish or perish”.