Just don’t be surprised if the uni later does a 180, or caves to something else.
Why I put my faith in principles, rarely people.
The question seems to be : “would you eat your own baby for 26 million dollars”, the answer was not no but, “hell no!”
Well, the existing university system is (as a whole) as obsolete as the newspaper business is. Of course they will take desperate measures and make unseemly compromises to try to stay afloat.