To add: Universities seem to have figured out that there's no consequences for just using their power to crush protest. Students aren't a part of the community (if they ever were), they're the product. Administration would rather accept losses than cede control, and they've figure out it works.

Northdale in Waterloo, Ontario: a neighbourhood next to two big universities that was upzoned. It now has _side streets_ with mid-rise mixed-use buildings (with low parking rates) right alongside the detached houses they’re replacing. Lots of small independent businesses there, not many cars.

A general atmosphere of better funding and better administration of public universities likely would spark Texas' competitive tendency to have the biggest and best ones.

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“Doing something” involved stricter rules on protests, harsher punishment for civil disobedience, and the deployment of an edtech surveillance infrastructure all built upon the reactionary campus design that Langdon Winner pointed out decades ago. Universities are literally built to squash protests.

Part of this is coextensive with what Dave mentions. There are a great many donors who, after seeing the efficacy of the coordinated student protests, pushed universities to “do something” about them lest they face the consequences of “inaction.”

There’s actually something missing here: universities take student protests seriously as security threats and respond to them not as social justice actions, or civil disobedience, but as the work of violent bad actors. This becomes evident in universities’ responses to protests over the last decade.

@business: Universities across the US are starting to release demographic information for the first class admitted after the Supreme Court barred affirmative action. Here's how enrollment changed

I need to find that thing someone mentioned about the nature of information collection from the 19th century and how that's been the precursor of a "public-by-default" nature from universities (and then the Web). There was a tie to it being part of the colonial glare into the rest of the world […]

The corporatization of universities turns students into “consumers” whose desires are considered only inasmuch as needed to insure they are sources of revenue — if they aren’t performing this most important role, they are “bad”