Written by Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
Higher education continues to defend a system that is visibly collapsing. The problem is not just a matter of funding or politics. It is the outdated faculty construct itself. This piece is not a thought experiment. It is a blueprint for dismantling a sacred cow that has outlived its usefulness.
For more than a century, the faculty construct has been treated as the sacred cow of higher education. Professors were cast as all-in-one figures who teach, advise, research, design curriculum, mentor, govern, and assess. Revered. Untouchable. Beyond question.
But the very construct that built higher education is now breaking it. What was once a mark of prestige has become a structural failure. The overloaded faculty construct has become the choke point for scale, the excuse for spiraling tuition, the cause of burnout, and the quiet trigger behind closures across the country.
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