Apparently you don't seem to understand how much the example of professors/directors of programs at universities can go in educating and forming the understanding of the young.  It is amazing that you forgot the "leadership" of university professors like St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Albert the Great or St. Bonaventure, and their influence on succeeding generations.


The directors and professors are following the example of Jesus---who didn't just TEACH but DEMONSTRATED by EXAMPLE how and what God expects of us.  

Secondly, more young people enrolled in colleges/universities have access to their professors than they often do to their bishops or even pastors.  How many and how often do bishops/priests go out among students, meet with them---even eat with them. 

Finally, you seem to believe that only the hierarchy/clergy are leaders---and not the laity.  This is the Age of the Laity---and the laity are leaders giving 21st Century Christian example to future leaders.