If True, Colleges Are Doomed

It's fashionable these days not only to bemoan the high cost of higher education but to suggest that fewer students should attend college--that at most, certificate programs at junior colleges are all that most people need. I've cautioned students against going to college for its own sake, or because they don't know what else to do, suggesting instead that they do a little "growing up" first and then, when they know what they want, they can go to college if they need to.

If this article is true, though, then all bets are off:

Colleges have abandoned responsibility for shaping students' academic development and instead have come to embrace a service model that caters to satisfying students' expressed desires.