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a vast infrastructure, vestigial buildings. And at least a few years
More to the point, in the past century and a half, oddly matched teams of fundraisers and construction workers have brought into being a vast infrastructure: the enormous arrangement of buildings and grounds called “campuses.” Even if... there will still be several decades, maybe even a century, in which anachronistic practitioners of material, place-based higher education will still be found puttering around those vestigial buildings. And there will be at least a few years when I can be trotted out, nursing home assistants training along beside me, to reminisce about the ancient days of yore when a professor could sit with a student and declare, “You can write better than this,” and then lead the student in the very material actions required to make that declaration prophetic and productive.
— somewhere, by someone, midway through Lester F. Goodchild, Richard W. Jonsen, Patty Limerick and David A. Longanecker, eds., Higher Education in the American West : Regional History and State Contexts (2014)
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