To be fair, while I think the preliminary results don't look good, they could improve over the next few years. But at what cost? Public higher education will have been remade, with less choice and access for students, less faculty autonomy and security, and less of an ability to shape citizens for a democratic society. But perhaps that is the 'cunning of Capitalism' .

We need more of these: https://triad-city-beat.com/uncg-rpk-consulting/(https://triad-city-beat.com/uncg-rpk-consulting/)

An “Existential Crisis” in Higher Ed: Why WV Is Gutting Its Public University | Amanpour and Company,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys05pKVdp4E&t=51s

https://www.chronicle.com/article/unc-greensboro-reckons-with-the-fallout-of-painful-academic-cuts(https://www.chronicle.com/article/unc-greensboro-reckons-with-the-fallout-of-painful-academic-cuts) https://triad-city-beat.com/uncg-rpk-consulting/(https://triad-city-beat.com/uncg-rpk-consulting/)

Another instance of the rpk template: https://www.ecc.edu/about/news/SUNYErieRealignmentAnalysisFinalReportfromrpkGROUP.pdf(https://www.ecc.edu/about/news/SUNYErieRealignmentAnalysisFinalReportfromrpkGROUP.pdf)

Please post any information you might have about the role of rpk GROUP and other forces which are driving this vocationalization in higher education. Please also share strategies for both exposing these actors and pushing back in ways that might save philosophy and the liberal arts at other public institutions. I have attached the piece by Gaita on the purpose of a university. Are such views simply archaic?