[Goose]

It seems students are pretty unhappy with the universities crack down on student activities on campus. So I would put addressing that issue as a higher priority on my list. The fact that students are very vocally unhappy with the administration does not give me faith that they know what they are doing running the university. 

As far as I can see the priority are rankings, prestige, over the feelings of the students and alumni.

I don't know what your experience was at Stanford, but as near as I can determine, the University administration has NEVER cared very much about the "feelings" of the students. The alumni, at least back in history, had to be placated enough that many of them would give donations to the University. Today the University identifies the big donors and doesn't much care what the rest of the alumni thinks. Students opinions and feelings were only reluctantly considered and only if absolutely necessary for some reason, like say riots.

[Goose]

It seems students are pretty unhappy with the universities crack down on student activities on campus. So I would put addressing that issue as a higher priority on my list. The fact that students are very vocally unhappy with the administration does not give me faith that they know what they are doing running the university. 

As far as I can see the priority are rankings, prestige, over the feelings of the students and alumni.

I don't know what your experience was at Stanford, but as near as I can determine, the University administration has NEVER cared very much about the "feelings" of the students. The alumni, at least back in history, had to be placated enough that many of them would give donations to the University. Today the University identifies the big donors and doesn't much care what the rest of the alumni thinks. Students opinions and feelings were only reluctantly considered and only if absolutely necessary for some reason, like say riots.