Insular for sure. Surely we have a right to expect more creative thought and high level reflections on major social change.

Surely the first thought ought to be that teriary education of all sorts have now become more or less essential for everyone. Just as the decision was made by our ancestors that an educated population benefited everyone, just like fire and police services, etc., so the state taxes ought to pay the cost for education up to secondary graduation, so now the time has come to for the very same reasons to extend this to all forms of postsecondary education.

The role of Catholic educational institutions within that future is a further relevant question. My preference would be to see Catholic postsecondary resources used more effectively by becoming federated colleges or theological faculties in secular institutions rather than self-standing universities.

If such thoughts are to big for administrators, then institutional death may not be an entirely bad thing????