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@johnzajac @jhlibby
I’m highly skeptical of the train of thought in that first paragraph. It’s true, to a very large extent, but the “unsustainability” of higher ed is much like the “unsustainability” of social security: the gap between the real problems and the imagined ones is •vast•, and right-wingers bent on institutional destruction prey on that gap.

What’s actually unsustainable about higher ed is our society’s vast and growing economic inequality: colleges want to remain accessible to people on the low end of the divide, but have to pay people on the “skilled labor” (hate that term) side of the divide. Those two are diverging faster and faster.