The party line trickles down through deans and department heads. One casualty is today's students. Don't blame them for their overly job-centered attitudes.
Quality is out and quantity is in.
Slice the baloney as thin as you can. What matters is how many publications you get out the door. This paper pollution also winds up choking the very peer-review system that is supposed to pass judgment on the merit of research papers submitted to professional journals. Some of you will probably succumb to the poison of it. Sooner or later you will see some man to whom the idea of wealth as mere wealth does not appeal, to whom the methods of amassing that wealth do not interest, and who will not accept money if you offer it to him at a certain price.