You are correct that it will take a long time, but we have started chipping away; and some incursions are possible until one of the big ones falls. Then, we may hope for a domino effect.
I also think the internet is helping expose the "fake education" at the major schools the same way it is sowing justifiable mistrust in many of our news organizations. This will encourage applicants and corporate hiring managers to look to smaller and less expensive schools.
The internet and online education are carving a bite out of higher ed. It may not be much now, but considering the collapse of admissions to some of the schools after ridiculous outbursts of leftism have taken place, some institutions are vulnerable on a piecemeal basis.
Examples:When Satanists wanted to hold a Black Mass at Harvard's Memorial Hall honoring war dead, the alumni soon "reasoned" with the adminstration to deny access, demonstrating that alumni money still talks, in spite of Harvard's gargantuan endowment.
U Missouri's admissions plunged after an explosion of BLM in 2015 caught the interest of viral social media across the country.
Last year's anti-white, anti-authority protests at Evergreen University have lowered enrollment alarmingly, and one of the white science professors who was targeted for destruction (for not wanting to suspend classes in order to participate in denouncing his own race) successfully sued.
In 2014, born-again Christian conservative UNC-W professor of criminal justice Mike Adams won a seven-year long battle for tenure that had previously been denied because of his viewpoint, allowing him to continue not just teaching future law enforcement professionals, but also his Townhall columns that excoriate excesses of political correctness on campuses across the nation.
No it isn't. That is what has us here in the swamp so befuddled about Trump. We woke up one day and our cheese had been moved about 1500 miles to some foreign place that was called America. We are waging a desperate war, here in the swamp, but the only people we can battle are swamp critters and whether GOPe or D, they are all irrelevant to what is going on any more. Win or lose we have lost because we aren't in a game anyone cares about.
You can't get anywhere we need to get incrementally in Higher Ed. You just start up something different somewhere else and when it starts to work you will get a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth from the losers who will go on CNN, like they did to day, and debate the unhealthiness of Trump's habit of drinking 12 diet cokes a day, debating the consequences of a false premise. Oh, and that Trump needs to resign in the face of some very serious allegations. Even Alan Dershowitz pretty much admits they don't have a point, or rather the point they have is dangerous.
Suddenly they wake up and discover they cannot engage a debate on a serious subject. By admitting that a subject is serious they have already lost.
Take Harvard, for instance. This is the school that became prominent in large measure as one of the first great research universities - which it was back in its day. Then it became the supplier of bureaucratic factota for the New Deal Welfare State. Unfortunately that evolved in the 1960s and 70s into the storehouse of radicalism.
Engaged in a process of continuous revolution Harvard has lost its way entirely. It offers neither place nor a viewpoint. It just sits, with a very very large endowment and undermines the ideals of western society convinced that as the seat of everything intellectual there must be new ideas which they create out of their genius, forgetting that there is nothing new under the sum.
It seems we disagree on the level of inertia in the present system. To coin a geological metaphor, I think it’s Ayers Rock, just sitting there on a plain for millennia while a few bits flake off and an occasional boulder falls. It seems that you think it’s a very large body with significant kinetic energy which will roll downhill at an accelerating rate if a few impediments are removed.
Only time will tell. Neither of us may live to see the “something totally different” that may emerge in geologic time. Meanwhile, Tom the Son hopes to start at Western Carolina University as a junior next fall, on a three-year program to an M.S. in Chemistry.