This is a revisit of a topic that was quite contentious a few years back. The old thread on this issue is here and is worth a look.
That old thread dealt in large part with the benefits for students interested in violin connoisseurship of having the various aspects of violin knowledge available at universities. Those topics are definitely worth revisiting.
In addition, it might be worth while to look at what benefits might come for all in the field, professionals and the interested general public, by establishing universities (or some other public institutions) as the repository of violin information. What would happen if experts on the violin shared their knowledge as freely with the public as knowledge is shared in any other valued knowledge field? A lot of good.