It seems that Mrs. Obama felt ill at ease when she was at Princeton. No surprise. It wasn't people like her who made it what it is, and she didn't even satisfy their normal requirements for admission. (She's said people thought her grades and scores were too low, even with the benefit of affirmative action.) If she thought there was something valuable there that's OK, it might have made sense for her to go there, but why be surprised when she felt out of place?
The idea, I suppose, is that Princeton should give up the past that made it valuable and become a generic 21st century place totally run by careerists, bureaucrats and therapists where nobody is at home. That's what's happened on the whole, and not only to Princeton. It's done a world of good for careerists, bureaucrats and therapists, but not, I think, for our universities or anything else.