The University As We Know It Is Finished, and That’s a Good Thing (opens in new tab)

Nils Gilman at Persuasion: The shift from grants to loans, from tenured faculty to mass adjunctification, and from a broad education in the liberal arts to vocational credentialism all occurred under the banner of making universities more “responsive to market demands.” In practice, this has meant transferring cost from the public to the individual “student consumer,”…