Hopefully, the colleges and universities will go down the tubes first.
One might make the assessment that various commercialized universities have a brand-name which has some value...mostly due to the NCAA football or basketball status...but it has value in terms of people wanting that product.
When something comes into the marketplace to disrupt the name-brand....like parents seeing Junior thinking about attending X college and there’s riots or disruptions there, and the product cost $90,000 over four years...what exactly do you think the parents will do? Or if the kid is borrowing all the money to attend? Your confidence will erode, and you will walk away to find a lesser troubled brand-name.
So, take the next step....you have the brand-name that is troubled...with a large bulky and high-cost staff...and your income is cut by 10-to-20 percent in one year. Can you dump staff quickly? Can you re-brand your image and gain back the losses? Can you lay off staff members without them striking or using more protests to get you deeper into the pit? All of this...while a governor sits and watches this from a distance....knowing that a bankrupt public state university...is a very bad image for the state.