Only burn down the social science programs. (Why? Because social science isn’t a science but for the vast majority a bunch of cleverly packaged personal prejudices!). Any program that involves “ethnic or sexual orientation” studies burn that done. Another set of “false academia” that dresses personal prejudices up. Almost all higher education art programs fall into this category too. All of these programs exist solely to increase the number of ethnics and women in the faculty lounges.
However the first thing that must be done is cut the number of administrative positions by 50% to 70. For state schools the state legislature must demand the resignations of school presidents and governing boards that allowed the administrative bloat to happen.
State schools who have land grant institution ad their founding principle must go back to that! State legislatures must force that!
None of this will happen because state schools have evolved to where they are a sports entertainment complex that does education on the side. As long as state educators get good tickets there will be no change.
I think college-level education should be more like the real estate licensing education I got circa 1991. I think I paid $98 for 45 hours of classroom time.
typo: “... burn that done ..” = burn that down