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University of California legened Clark Kerr is dead. His writing seems saddeningly accurate:

Paradoxically, Mr. Kerr himself was to issue some of the most cogent warnings about giant multiversities. While maintaining that they were inevitable, he warned of the danger of “knowledge factories'' whose neglect of students through large classes, the use of teaching assistants and the selection of faculty members based on their research expertise rather than instructional capacities could turn those students into an “alienated'' class.

He joked that a university had become “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.''