What is the state of Catholic Higher Education?

As "Catholic" institutions such as DePaul University strive to match their secular counterparts with programs such as their "Queer Studies" offering while seemingly distancing themselves from the actual teachings of Catholic Church, the question arises "What is the state of Catholic Higher Education?"
Dr. Anne Hendershott, former faculty member at the University of San Diego examines this question in her book Status Envy: the Politics of Higher Education.
Dr. Hendershott notes that, as catholic universities tend to be considered inferior to the top secular institutions, many of those catholic institutions have consciously distanced themselves from Catholic ideas and curriculum in favor of imitating secular institutions.
Presently Dr. Hendershott is a professor of urban studies at The King’s College in New York where she says she is allowed to be Catholic. (story here)