I have a problem with the assumption that "publish or perish" is killing the universities. The assumption is that one has to publish a lot of material. That is not true. Gauss had an excellent quote that applies here, "few but ripe." This point behind the quote is publish a little, but let what you publish be truly brilliant. Do you honestly think Harvard's math department would not want the person who manages to prove the Riemann hypothesis if that person also only had two other published papers? The answer is resounding, "hell no." Academia is about quality, not quantity.