QuoteThe great collapse of US higher education has begun
Yes, but to be more accurate, the great collapse of US middle class education has begun.

A Tech-Backed Influencer Wants to Replace Teachers With AI
Backed by tech money, entrepreneur MacKenzie Price is growing a network of private K–12 schools that promises to replace all classroom teachers with an "AI tutor" that students learn from while glued to their laptop screens.
The proles are not to think critically about society or history.
Get ready for Prager Screw. The common man is to worry about the price of beer and trivia. No "big picture" concerns will be appropriate or possible as idiocracy is pursued at warp speed. A new age of pharaohs defined by the rentier* economy the conservative billionaire (NAZI) class is building now dawns as our new reality.
It will not take long to create an nation of morons. Destroying public education will have a very fast payback for 'them'. In a few years stupidity, and draconian control by the American elite will be ubiquitous. Recent decades have shown that poor public education is beneficial to the American upper class. A large part of the American demographic is already malleable, easily manipulated. And all too willing to play the fool.
* A rentier is a person who earns a significant portion, or often all, of their income from property rights rather than from actively working.