[Lizavetta]

The fallout of a collapse of America's higher education system would be dramatic. Less expensive, online education may become the norm. “Branded” universities will begin to offer “e-degrees” to a vastly larger number of students. The “campus experience,” involving vibrant exchanges of ideas,

On what planet is this guy living?

[betty boop]

The “campus experience,” involving vibrant exchanges of ideas

On what planet is he living? Well, I'd have to wager it's planet Earth, but he's old enough to remember (like me) that the "campus experience" once really was like that.

What happened to academe in the 'sixties and 'seventies is beyond disgraceful. Today, one meets lots of people with a slew of advanced degrees who are totally ignorant. Yet arrogant, smug, and self-satisfied. And moreover, consider themselves fit, even entitled, to rule the rest of us....

[KevinB]

The “campus experience,” involving vibrant exchanges of ideas STDs.

Fixed.

[precisionshootist]

“ The “campus experience,” involving vibrant exchanges of ideas,”

The campus experience involves exchanges of ideas across the entire political spectrum ranging from radical socialist to hardcore communist. lol

[SauronOfMordor]

The job of universities used to be to ensure that somebody coming out with a degree was somebody who could think, analyze, research, and apply logic.

They do not appear to be doing that any more. They have dispensed with any pretense of having quality control for their products. What’s needed is some other way to measure intellectual quality.