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.
You know I didn't write the above line, right? My post was responding to it.
I agree with your post, that a new form of higher education will evolve and eventually destroy the old order. That's how things work, provided we continue to have something resembling politcal and economic freedom here.
You are so correct in observing that today's "journalists" do not know how to form a proper debate, first identifying a worthy topic, nor even research a context.