Well, they still offer Shakespeare at Mississippi State. My daughter took it. And if you are in the Honors Program, you can select a general ed program of Great Books. My son’s doing that and he just read the Odyssey and moved on to Abelard, I think. So, there are countercurrents out there.
You are lucky, this story is about the University of California system which is highly liberal. All of the campuses use the same criteria, and the same goes for the alternate state run system there the California State University campuses.
Indoctrination not Education is the mantra and they want good little Bundists who worship at the Liberal Altar. If you want to get passing grades you do what you are told and you get through, if you try otherwise it is a real steep climb if not impossible.