The Midwest’s universities are merely following the descent of the elitist’s beloved Coastal Eastern universities into ignomy and irrelevance.
Perhaps it is for the best. When the Apocalypse comes, whether from Biblical prophecy or so-called global warming, the most valuable members of the society will be those educated in trades. People are going to be much more worried about survival than sociology. Today’s Millennials have no skills beyond googling something on-line and even then they haven’t the tools or experience to survive.