The best thing we could do for our culture is close the universities and make every 18 year old get a job out right out of high school. When they mature enough to know what they want to do with their lives, they could go to an appropriate vocational training center.
We have far too many adolescent 30+ year olds who will never amount to anything in our society. At the top of that list, one would put academics.
The best thing we can do is end state funding for Universites. In fact end state funding for any school after they learn to read. With the Internet people can educate themselves after that point.