Interesting read. While I don't agree with a good part, I do very much agree with the need to reevaluate  the purpose of the University. I currently have 4 children in college and a husband who is a professor. I agree the the initial good of a liberal arts education has not only been forgotten, it has been devalued.  Far from being merely "extensions of  US business," they have become institutions in which individuals can study (and sometimes major in)  issues of self promotion and self interest that are not only narcissistic at their core but irrelevant to real life. We are encouraging and paying for students to study themselves. Classes on  the development of western thought, Great Books, or Morality and Ethics have been replaced with little known literature form a variety of cultures. Done to promote diversity, it has unwittingly removed the western moral anchor from studies. This has not been done by a focus on accumulating  wealth as much as the drive for multiculturalism.