Cutting entire departments such as journalism, pre-historic studies, latin american studies, etc
Hard to see that as bad. Journalism is a profession that is vastly over supplied, pre-historic studies is an OK subject, but as I recall the USA is really quite near hundreds of millions of people who know quite a lot about Latin America, so if you need someone who knows about it, you just need to ask.
Increase tuition by at least 5% whilst the uni President, a few uni officials and the football and basketball team coaches have million $$ paychecks.
I appreciate that America has the about the highest illiteracy rate in the developed world. did you even bother to read my earlier post ?
American education is pretty much what Americans want it to be.
Absolutely nowhere in the world, under no political or social system, culture or faith do the public have such control over education as in America.
Americans put their own hands in their pockets and subsidise sports in universities so a midscale university in America will spend more on sports than every British university put together.
They are sublimely indifferent to the racism, endemic drug abuse and violence that is spawned by putting sports into universities even though it is well documented.
Not one single major problem with US universities is a problem that has not been solved in most other developed countries.
If you turned up at the Ecole Polytechnique, ETH, QMC, Imperial, Cambridge or Edinburgh and said "you have to do daffy arts subjects" rather than the real one, you'd be in physical danger.