Our nation needs highly educated people with leadership qualities and integrity. University governing boards are also appropriately imposing rules governing behaviour and becoming less rubber stamps for administrative wishes. Why do typical college students spend fewer hours on academics than eighth graders, with few adverse consequences for their laziness? Why does it take more people to educate a college student today than in, say, 1960, while in other economic areas US workers “are now roughly 250 per cent more productive than their 1960 counterparts”? With college closings increasing (“creative destruction”), market realities are starting to take hold, especially among adults in critical roles, such as university governing boards.