FOSTERING INEQUALITY. University Diaries sees the consequences of traditional higher education emulating the upstarts.

For years she’s chronicled the onlining and general cheapening of American university education, but there’s no stronger argument against the degradation of our degrees than a good look at the burgeoning, squalid for-profit sector. Aggressive recruitment of tons of students in order to make lots of money from them; overwhelmingly online offerings taught to people whose identity you cannot even verify; low standards of instruction and little expectation of serious work; not even an effort to offer face-to-face classroom instruction; the replacement of the higher thought implicit in the phrase higher education with information-bullets — we have seen the future, and it is us.

"To obtain promotion, ability must be shown for greater responsibility", from the Book of Rules. Entry level credentials do not necessarily prepare the holder to show that ability.