Thanks for the answer.  I am not sure I follow completely.  On the one hand, post secondary degrees have become increasingly important in terms of job opportunities.  On the other hand, the arts and humanities have certainly become devalued as well as the need for full time faculty.  Buildings seem to be an ever more important way of pointing to the accomplishments of university administrators.

My main problem with the article is stated by a few others.  Although I am all for decision making roles for women, I think it would have been more appropriate to call attention to the increase of lay people of both genders in higher ed.  I also think it is did not give enough credit to the qualities displayed by the nuns in the 19th and 20th centuries in the education of Catholic women.  I believe that those involved in the higher education of women were quite qualified.