Perhaps that's part of the rot in the soul of higher education in the United States. The infection of universities with an ideology of – I'll call – "Vocationalism" and the people who are full-throated believers in such Capital-driven worldview. See: the steady denigration of the liberal arts.
Side-note: I think the capture of universities by Leftist professors [outside of technical disciplines] exposes a profound failure in American letters and American thought – conservative thinkers have lost power of relevancy in the intellectual class. Where is our Leo Strauss?
And I’m not an “evil Leftists” guy. I respect the value of their methods, if not their conclusions.
Pardon the largely off-topic tangent. Mostly writing for myself and to flesh out my own thoughts.