As you elude to, I think it speaks to a bigger problem which is that Universities don't really know what they want to be or what their main purposes are. Are they places of learning for the sake of learning and scholarship? Are they job training and placement centers? Are they social clubs and camps for young adults? Are they sports franchises? Are they centers of basic research? Are they centers of collaborative industrial research? Are they incubators for companies? Are they political entities that want to shape public policy? Are they centers of social justice? They seem to want to be all things to all people but that's not possible when pursuing mission A inherently puts them in conflict with mission B.