I have opened my mind to the thought that Universities, created in a time when few owned books or could read, really aren't that useful. 
They certainly aren't the place where the community conversations take place, or where the community is even totally welcome. They are an elite, overpriced environment that has, for too long, held a monopoly on degrees and employment certifications.
Today, we have TV, the internet, and smart phones. 
They are too stiff and ancient in their thinking. Unfortunately, to succeed in life, one needs to traverse their paths and sit in their hard seats. 
Having written that, I must add that today's public Universities are much more open to new thinking than are the conservative institutions like Christian schools.
Anyone who worships at the altar of a mythic God and thinks that the Old South is to be cherished, that time where 40% of Virginia "citizens" were held as slaves is...well, the patriarch Romans and Greeks would agree.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon