Actually, a couple dogmas:
1. We need more kids in 4-year universities.
2. Going to college is going to improve your financial situation.
Until we can have adult conversations about these two things, it will only get worse. Then it's compounded by university administrators who are addicted to constructing new buildings, funding sports programs that lose money and adding more provosts and deans and other administrators, many in the diversity and inclusion racket. And, of course, no one asks, "What have these additions accomplished or what quantifiable results have we received from these things?"