But US taxpayers are heavily funding most private colleges too. And, we stick our noses into the hiring of private businesses, etc., already.
What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
This is in a lot of ways reminiscent of Harvard’s “Jewish quota” back in the day. The SATs were actually introduced as a leveling mechanism to, for example, give smart, rural, flyover country kids a chance to go to the colleges of the elite, along with the the coastal private school kids.
This on a lot of levels was a very good thing. But in some ways it also diminished the emphasis on morality and moral development at such colleges, which generally had got their starts as religious institutions.
In some ways, they tried to swing the pendulum back toward that and away from a straight brain race by starting to look to well-rounded kids who had put time into volunteering, for example. But of course, the elite used that opening and excuse to buy their kids an advantage for having founded some sort of third-world charity after having spent a summer volunteering there—and other such ridiculousness.
Volunteering at the vet or at the Sierra Club neither indicates nor counter-indicates a love of one's fellow men. But this is lumped in with teaching literacy under the umbrella of volunteering.