[inglor_cz]

As of now, American universities seem to exist chiefly to support an enormously bloated, parasitic administration at the cost of young peoples' heavy debt and precarious working arrangements of junior faculty.

That is a nauseating aberration to me.

[OldGuyInTheClub]

The generations before mine paid taxes so that I could attend a superb public University for very little money. But, about the time I entered that University, tax cut fever took root. A few years later, the costs started to climb through the roof and the incentives changed. My generation didn't fight hard enough or if we did, we lost the battle. Public anything is now poison in the US and I don't think it will improve in my lifetime. It will probably get even worse.