It SHOULD be true, all of it.
I wish it were true, any of it.
And it may be true, somewhere.
I do not think it is the usual case, though.
Whole "Universities," nevermind colleges, are being privatized wholesale. Entire departments have been effectively bought by corporate interests. The Koch brothers, for instance, own and control vast swaths of George Mason University and that VA school that gave us GOPhux Rep. Brat, Randolph-Mason College, among others.
So-called STEM ("Science, Technology, Engineering & Math") training has replaced whatever spirit of "free inquiry" there used to have been. Schools are freely discussing dropping and/or severely curtailing their "liberal arts" curricula.
It's been almost 20 years since I was in a classroom and so it all may have changed, in the interim; but I would have to say that the preponderance of undergrads I taught were mostly interested in 1) NOT having their comfortable mis/preconceptions disturbed 2) on their way to a comfortable billet in the middle class.
"Those student loans won't pay themselves back."
There just seems to be an air of greater desperation, now, as the opportunities shrink and the costs grow.
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