Our universities have become powerful agents of the two-tier social order: the well educated, prosperous and optimistic haves and everyone else. During the latter half of the twentieth century our colleges and universities fueled a thriving middle class that has since been devastated by job loss to China and India and the widespread selling down the river of the bulk of hardworking Americans. Our institutions now produce candidates for the elite. American society is now more divided between rich and poor than Ancien Regime France just prior to the French Revolution. This is not good.