The underhanded subversive methods and goals of critical studies, and their passively aggressive advocacy for the destruction of Western culture and society, are particularly suited to the female temperament.

The agents and dupes of neo-Marxism captured and destroyed the higher learning.

It's still a pipeline to sinecures in all levels of the establishment bureaucracy, providing political indoctrination that ensures ideological conformity. Colleges still have a monopoly on scientific and technological training and research. Though Elon Musk is finding ways to get around it, he and others who want to work outside the established technocracy need people trained in the sciences.