See: Quora.com March 23, 2020
Post addressing that problem.
Jim Brett, Novelist and retired PhD Historian of Russia
......“Private ownership, say by a corporation or political party or brand new religion, could present risks to the search for knowledge and for democratic-merit-based access. So, I am not eager to see a wholesale conversion of publics into adjunctivitis or privates.
(2020) Now that I am retired from the fray, and while socially distancing myself in the midst of planetary pandemic, I can see an electronic university model emerging and basically taking over the physical place.
Also, I can see that emphasis on “everyone should have a college education” is basically politics rather than pedagogy. Even the newspaper “funnies” portray the grade inflation and grade extortion. Teaching Russian History to h.s. grads who were a little uncertain where France is on the map of Europe was disconcerting.
As fun as it will be, I think restoring course competency evaluations is essential, and maybe that begins with the Admissions Processes.