The most important change happening to the academy is that the “hallowed” or “sacrosanct” idea of the campus is eroding. Professors and what they have stood for have been “desanctifed.” The next 10 years will see the fuller emergence of manifest class differences. The gap between winners and losers will be impossible to hide on the campus, and it will be increasingly impossible to immunize the campus from its surroundings.
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