>The truth is that teaching is a diminishing priority in universities. Years of AAUP reports indicate that budgets for instruction are proportionally shrinking. Universities now devote less than one-third of their expenditures to instruction. Meanwhile, administrative positions have increased at more than 10 times the rate of tenured faculty positions. Sports and amenities are much more fun.
The author alludes to sports and nice dorm rooms as the place where the money goes, but is that true? Do they really take up all of the slack that was once the use for instruction? That can't be right. There has to be a lot more corruption than that these days.
Still, if the University really has become High School 2.0, then this makes sense in a way. But the real question we then have to ask is what happens then to the MA/S? Is that then the new BA/S? I have been told so by many hiring managers that it is the case. Follow the logic here, that then means the PhD is the new MA/S. Perhaps these students are smarter than the author lets on.