I am trying to be the opposite of this in my brevity, but maybe I am too cautious.  Joe Baugher describes at length and with a mixture of crisp clarity, deep insight and careless cut-and-paste editing, a system, r rather a set of related systems, that all share the same flaw: it no longer allows quality to rise.
With today's technology, it is entirely possible and increasingly necessary to start from scratch in our approach to higher education, precisely defined as education overseen by those actively engaged in creating new knowledge.