Information is not culture. Universities teach culture - moral attitudes. They don't just transfer information.

This applies to science and engineering as much as it applies to the arts, but you need a good education to understand what "morality" means in this context.

The collapse of the West started when the old Enlightenment morality - education of all kinds as a collective good - was replaced by the MBA culture of greed and vapid narcissism.

DEI was a weak and ineffectual response to that. The dysfunction goes far deeper, and universities are now a vector of it rather than a bulwark against it.