WORKING CONDITIONS MATTER. A George Leef post at National Association of Scholars notes the social waste of content-free degrees at non-profit universities.

Ah, but you’ll find lots of kids drowning in their student loan debts who went to public colleges and universities as well. Those schools are just as eager to lure in warm bodies to fill the dorms and school coffers, just as eager to keep them enrolled even if they are learning little, and just as eager to slap educational credentials on them and send them into a job world that many will find as hospitable as Antarctica.

Never mind the effect on faculty morale that administrative efforts to boost retention must have. Or perhaps those universities are implementing the low-cost, limited-content McDonald's model that some would like to see more widely diffused. Can you say formula for greater social stratification?