>College in general was meant as a way for people to rise up

No, college started out as academic institutions of learning, not instruments of social mobility. It was never intended as a job training program, rather a place of academics to work together on a topic, and was heavily restricted to the aristocrats and elites from the start.

Alot of the problems here is stemming precisely from trying to use higher education for a purpose it was not originally designed to do.

Yes. University needs to be university. It's never been good at being other things.

People have completely forgotten why it mattered on resumes to begin with. Association with a university signaled an appreciation for philosophy, now it signals tolerance for administrative abuse.