Universities have become money-making institutions that benefit from putting young people with no money into debt.
The community college I was going to, College of DuPage, was having funds embezzled in very large amounts. It is stupidly expensive to go there depending on what you want to do, which was nursing in my case.
The admin is also crappy when it comes to dealing with students who have disabilities. Right before I started dialysis, I had to drop a whole bunch of classes, for which they kept all of the money despite the fact that I was one month into the semester, and they put me on Academic Probation II. I have to seek permission from the school to register for classes now, on top of needing to register IN PERSON, and the Dean refused to work with me the last time I saw one. Staff has changed since, and considering all of this COVID business, I might be able to find a way to register and do classes online.
Now that I’m no longer on dialysis, there’s no more concern about having to drop courses.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/95-million-in-hidden-spending-revealed-at-college-of-dupage/
Those last two are the big ones.