>> The face of academia is decaying like everything else in this country. <<

Sadly so.

>> It's one more thing you think someone smart would see as a warning sign about how America's culture is trending downwards . . . <<

I never cease to be amazed by the blindness of other people when it comes to ignoring things like that.

>> but since there's money to be made off of student debt and it's more profitable to beat the spice out of faculty and staff . . . the people who could fix it are too busy counting their fat stacks of cash and getting their 18 holes of golf in.<<

Of course, the rich never see warning signs. Even individual ones rarely do, and when they do, nobody listens to them. They're like stockbrokers, they think things will keep going up forever and then are shocked by the inevitable crash. It's like, what, they've never seen a sine wave or a predator-prey graph? 0_o