There was a time faculties ran universities and this wouldn't happen, at least not like it is, but they've suffered the same over professionalization everything else has. Now universities are run by professional faculty administrators. Departments run by faculty are replaced by well funded "centers" with no faculty oversight beyond a brand attachment to a singular charismatic figure, more concerned with reputation management than academia... People talk a lot about people losing faith in institutions per institutions doing things to lose their faith...
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Yes, absolutely true. US universities have become heavily bureaucratized at the same time they became financialized - defunded by states and dependent on endowments (that they invest), real estate schemes (also drawing from private donors), and finance-backed tuition. Public universities have PR teams, marketing teams, and police departments.
Yup. Bright side (were the courts not captured by the right) in theory public universities cannot privilege Jewish Semites above Arab Semites, or anyone else. Future classes at the elite universities the court is composed of will hand wring at seminars about their decisions about this in retrospect unless Netanyahu realizes full Man In The High Castle domination.
Re: handwringing, I'll give that a maybe. Law students that study the SC end up going down two paths:
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The ones that realize it's just a political organ like the other branches with a facade of "calling balls and strikes" and decide to think the whole thing should be ridiculed and abolished.
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Same as 1 but they sell the facade because they want to clerk for a justice or other high level judge.
I think the most likely impact on them will be, "throw it on the pile"!