So we should have non-rigorous universities that can’t compete with Asian countries but lots of diverse low-achieving students can come there and hang out, hook up, and be given participation trophys for attending.
And lots of tenured (unfireable) faculty members who don’t do any rigorous scholarship, but get paid handsome salaries for doing 10 or 20 hours of work per week, mostly consisting of teaching “classes” in which they spend 45 minutes virtue signaling in in front of diverse students, and making themselves available for office hours and faculty meetings where they listen to students and colleagues emote about how unfair and stupid the world outside the university is.
And the federal government pays for it with student loans that eventually get forgiven and dumped on the taxpayers because the entire proposition is economically unsustainable.
But that shouldn’t matter, because they are searching for something more important than money.
I’d seriously consider looking at studying overseas if I were in high school.