over the past three plus years.
He accurately describes the state of the American university right now. To a tee. The expanding administrative fat, a good deal of it composed of toxic diversicrats. Profs who rail against structural oppression and income inequality, yet cannot be moved to to utter a single word of protest against the pittance wages paid to the adjunct who may or may not have a closet down the hall, nevermind the grad assistants doing their work for them while they "research" their obscure, uber-specialized subjects that no one cares about and no one reads. All the while, charging students, most of whom would've been better off working and building careers over that same span of time, absurdly high tuition, justified by the incredibly misleading statistic that "if you graduate from college, you'll make, on average, a million dollars more over your lifetime."
As others have stated, the humanities and social sciences are the canaries in the coalmine for the real sciences and other disciplines.