That's pretty much the it of it. Also, if you consider they are mostly the left over 60’s 'revolution' culture who are in high and lofty places currently...they've been pretty successful at handing their ‘revolutionary’ wand to the college campus students via the 60's faculty they've carefully placed.... 'in order' to keep THEIR revolution ongoing and still be a part of it through these kids today....in other words they see it as still living out their revolution WITH these kids toward their imaginiary utopia dreamworld.......
I think you have a backlash starting in the newest group of college students coming up though. I’m in college and the Millennial professors are probably the most irritating ones because they are committed to the “flipped classroom” and keep assigning new seating arrangements every class. I suspect that is because of the “open office” model that has already been debunked and shown to be an enemy of workplace productivity (and is no better as a learning environment). They are annoying as a group and the political ones are pushing people in the other direction. The people in school that I go to class with mostly just want to gain a skill that will allow them to work and do well in life. There are some true believer types floating around, but that is mostly because of a couple of well-placed militantly progressive professors bent on gate-keeping. The gate-keeping is the biggest problem IMO because they are picking winners and losers based on ideology, but when you try to do something about it the faculty who try to help get sanctioned. The problem is mostly not the profs on the front lines but the higher-up administrators who enable the bad ones. This group is basically unaccountable, invisible, well-paid, and growing in number. They are the reason tuition keeps going up IMO because the profs pay is going down and there are more adjuncts (who are paid even less). If your professors are paid less, the facilities have not changed, and tuition keeps going up, where is all the money going? Has to be the administrators.