RE: The university is dead....
If that is so, how does it continue to teach that all the ills of the world are due to capitalism?? How does it continue to teach conservatives bad, liberals good?? The university isn't dead, it's still teaching hate, anti-freedom, anti-thought, racial division, the list of negatives current universities teach is nearly endless. That it does so without the need for in-person meetings is simply a reflection that the bad people, i.e. current liberals, have taken over all aspects of the universities and that the form the teaching takes doesn't matter.
This might be a good thing because now that the libs have taken over the bricks and morter and hollowed it out they are left with an expensive bit of Real Estate that has been demonstrated to not be needed.? Leaving the conservatives with the option of creating the same sort of "not-in-person" alternate learning venues.? Much cheaper to build a youtube channel than a new endowed building.? What conservatives, indeed anyone still interested in preserving what's good in the world, need to do is put in place the "infrastructure" to make it possible for people to obtain accredited degrees thru almost any reasonable on-line curriculum.?
In modern times that only real purpose for people to go to classic universities was
1) Party
2) get the diploma because that's how you get in the door to the "good" jobs
If you can get 2) thru whatever online school you choose that should be the wave of the future and what conservatives should be working towards.? Of course the brick and mortor? people will fight it every step of the way the same way the lower school systems fight private schools and school choice.? It's a battle that needs to be engaged and won.