Any analysis that advocates for a return to a previous ideal, real or imagined, without consideration of what circumstances lead to the straying from such ideal is destined to fail. If one wants to return to a previous state, they must stop and then reverse the structural causes that contributed to the deviation.

In this case, ignoring veracity, it's the summation of factors that led to universities taking a stance. The author has to enumerate them, and describe the reason why the university capitulated, and then modify the equation so that university does not capitulate again. The underlying factor is that the university found it in their benefit to capitulate the first time. What would need to change auch that they didn't capitulate a second?