@SuzanEraslan @allianora This feels to me like a debate, but I'm not sure why it would be, because we largely agree. The forces that tolerate mediocrity in higher education are present in virtually all educational settings, from high schools conveying diplomas on kids who can't put together a sentence, to "black belt mills" in the martial arts. The fact that these problems exist, though, doesn't mean these structures per se lack value, right?