When the Bubble pops, DePauw will have no place to stay.

Any more realistic description of evolution would emphasize the importance of niches. Adaptation is the key to continual survival. Even more so with the similar but much faster pace social evolution we are all a part of.

In this instance let us view the American university system. It is complex, bloated and absolutely fails at its actual purpose. Anyone not in complete self-denial knows that students leaving our universities on average are dumber than when they entered.

All this aside, the obvious reason why our universities are perfect examples of people under socialist constructs lies in the immense allure of student loans. Subsidized on every level, this in conjunction with government grants and an extreme propaganda push in our secondary compulsive education, caused a "university bubble".
Tuition keeps rising and yet more and more students think they have to get in. Lack of any semblance of responsibilities on the part of administrations and professors has caused a massive trend to the idiotic and the oppressive. Simply because those schools already established, can not fail.

And so they fill their niche.

Which means that when this unstable social environment changes, their niche will disappear. As the economy worsens, among other sectors that have grown thanks to government theft and redirection of funds from more efficient areas to universities, universities will finally see a fall in the oncoming classes.

This is already in the beginning stages.

Now, state schools and Ivy leagues will be hurt, and will shrink in size. They will still remain afloat, or, more likely, completely nationalized instead of just constantly kissing the boot. (That's fascism by the way. Nationalization. You live in a fascist state, thought you should know.)

Some schools won't fair so well. In particular all of the small "liberal arts" schools that aren't in the blessed ivy league.
Let's put it this way. They don't teach anything useful, they're small and so will be hardest hit in a student population drop and, let's face it, their administrations are too large, too stupid, too lazy, and far too arrogant to adapt.
Poof! There goes your niche.
Providing that some miracle doesn't come blazing out of the wild blue yonder I state this proudly and sincerely.
DePauw University, you will be extinct by your own hand within the next couple decades, praise be to the Good.

Oh, and I would also at the time like to purchase East College. Though my predictions are more general and I can't tell what your insidious mindless destruction is going to harm next, I hope it's not that building. I have plans to start a new school in that building on your ashes.