What good is it when it is nothing of value. The Decline of College

The PC core curricula are worthless, no one seems to know anything about anything upon graduation.
Science, math and engineering appear to still be holding their own, but for how long will it last under the demands for diversity and terrible math courses at the secondary level?
Most high school students from the 1880s through the 1960's had a better basic education than most college grads today. The teaching erosion began even earlier as high school students before WWII had a better basic education than those from the late 1940's through the 1960s. The it was a disaster after that. m/r

The Decline of College | National Review Online

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013 

The four-year campus experience is becoming a thing of the past. 

By Victor Davis Hanson

For the last 70 years, American higher education was assumed to be the pathway to upward mobility and a rich shared-learning experience. Young Americans for four years took a common core of classes, learned to look at the world dispassionately, and gained the concrete knowledge to make informed arguments logically.

The result was a more skilled workforce and a competent democratic citizenry. That ideal may still be true at our flagship universities, with their enormous endowments and stellar world rankings. Yet most everywhere else, something went terribly wrong with that model. Almost all the old campus protocols are now tragically outdated or antithetical to their original mission.

Tenure — virtual lifelong job security for full-time faculty after six years — was supposed to protect free speech on campus. How, then, did campus ideology become more monotonous than diverse, more intolerant of politically unpopular views than open-minded? Universities have so little job flexibility that campuses cannot fire the incompetent tenured or hire full-time competent newcomers.

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