That is, universities used to be (well or badly) competing for students by offering something unique, promising extra career support or honors courses, competing in rare Div I sports, building a climbing wall, hosting ice cream or puppy therapy on the quad. But when the pivot to evisceration happened, it turned out there's nothing you can identify that is foundational enough to a liberal arts education that it can't be ruined and trashed tomorrow to save tens of thousands of $$. 2/