I would say that the most respectable universities are traditionally institutions of higher learning.

It's always been possible for any of them to decline into lesser institutions of not-as-much-higher-learning as they started out with.

Wouldn't leadership integrity and actual scholarship make the big difference between those that are able to strive higher each generation compared to those who strive lower?

Who is it that wants to aggressively devalue Aggie degrees that have already been earned, especially in the eyes of the world, along with any to be granted in the future anyway?

It's not only "The Eyes of Texas" that are upon this.