Who writes this kind of reality-free trash?  The author talks about reducing administrative costs, but with today&#x27;s universities you have no choice.  You can throw an upper-middle-class kid into university and he will do just fine.  But first-generation students, non-traditional students, foreign students, students on athletic scholarships  &amp;c need support services, and access has been expanded so much that these things consume a substantial part of the budget.  You have no choice but to offer them.  Without them a substantial part of the student body would fail out quickly.<p>And then the author talks about leaving campus open all year.  When you ply faculty and teaching support staff at my university with sufficient alcohol they will eventually admit that Summer term is done for the extra tuition income.  When you ply them with more they will also admit that soon they will add Winter classes for even more cash - not that anyone can learn anything substantial in these three weeks.<p>And finally the author recommends to drop research and go back to teaching.  In theory that sounds good. In practice, universities have been forced to fish for grant money because state support has been scaled back.  Also, in my observation, the worst teaching is done by full professors in their Fifties, who have long checked out and are not keeping up with current practice.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s time to get rid of tenure and increase state support.