The time frame is no longer adequate, the spaces are too confining and boring for the new generation, and there can no longer be a concept like graduation when everything we learn is obsolete in just a few years. In the age of linking data, data warehousing and data mining, it makes no sense to artificially work within subject domains. Top down management is dead. Departmentalization is dead. There is a new power structure that spreads responsibility to parents and students, and makes teachers coaches rather than talking heads.
Education needs a major overhaul.
We are wallpapering the inside of the box when we should be tearing down the box. These young people were late leaving the nest. More students graduating from high school, could not find jobs. They moved back in with mom and dad. About one third of all community college students already have a degree.