I was a kid then and people my parent’s aged were converting from hippies to yuppies, making greed good, and elected Regan.
It’s not all their fault, but their generation was the biggest during the era when unions were weakened or eliminated, taxes were cut, and hedge funds and holding companies were invented.
As if it wasn’t boomers running the colleges.
In the 1980s, boomers were in their 30s/early 40s, so no they were not likely to be senior leadership in colleges at the time.
I was a kid then and people my parent’s aged were converting from hippies to yuppies, making greed good, and elected Regan.
It’s not all their fault, but their generation was the biggest during the era when unions were weakened or eliminated, taxes were cut, and hedge funds and holding companies were invented.