>> Education is not about graduation ceremonies.
Yeahbut, I doubt there’s all that much education going on at Columbia either.
And I bet the “credentials” (or “pedigree”) value in a Columbia diploma has taken a below-the-waterline hit as well.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving institution, after what they did in the thirties and forties to bring us Gramscian marxism.
If families were less focused on the degrees, graduations, and prestige of the colleges, there would be more actual education going on in higher ed.