Inventing the University?

Bartholomae talks about "inventing the university" in instances where students aren't experts in what they are writing about, but still write about their given topics as though they are experts. However, is the students' ability to adapt themselves to different fields and write as 'experts' really inventing the university? Or is it simply the students using the university to become "well-rounded"?

On the one hand students are forced to be economists in the morning, psychologists in the afternoon, and anthropologists in the evening. Then, for the students to have to go back home and have to write papers on three different topics proves they are forced to invent the university in the way that will get the students a better grade. They do this by having a basic formula on how papers should look in order to be considered, "good papers." In this way inventing the university can be translated into inventing what the university wants.

On the other hand, is it really inventing the university when students write papers on different topics without being "experts"? When students are given an assignment they are not completely clueless on how to write. There is background information given throughout the course that helps students set up their papers. If a student were truly "inventing the university" they would be writing a paper based on a topic they had no previous knowledge about. In this situation the student would have to invent the university by researching the information needed and transferring it into a form that the university thinks to be correct.