Had a chat with my dad (professor or adjacent from about 1970-2005) about this and he kind of shrugged and said something like "it has always been thus" but he missed the later stuff so hard to say
It may go back further Some early chapters in /Illiberal Reformers/ discuss the impact of importing norms from German higher ed in the late 19C and early 20C I think if you were to look at a long history of universities you'd see alternate waves of flourishing and purging. :/
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Sure, but I think John Dewey's reforms were pretty significant - he changed the purpose of the humanities to being about questioning power structures and institutions.
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