The decline of academia has led the decline of the Western culture. An old joke is no longer funny because the opposite is true, "Question: How do you make Budweiser? Answer: Send him to college." Today that would make Buddy Boy a fool.
Until the Bayh-Dole Act that gave government funds to colleges and universities - with strings of course, the only institutions that survived did so with academic excellence. Now Marxist institutions with no other strength are surviving on the government...nothing else.
Demand that your reps repeal the Bayh-Dole Act now and take back academic excellence, let those would-be Marxists flip burgers instead.