There is a sort of quid pro quo between Democrats and educational establishment to help each other at the expense of tax payers and parents.
Democrats guarantee ever bigger flow of money to educational institutions and educational institutions in turn do the bidding to implement democrat agenda and ideology.
Inflation in Tuition costs has been astronomical and it has been underwritten by democrats via generous student loan programs that prevent any kind of cost reforms within educational institutions. Democrats are throwing money at them and turning them into their partisan ideological assets. And they make parents and students and now tax payers to foot the bill.
Yep. You are so right in this identification of the cause of it.
Back in 1954, when I entered Syracuse University, six years before federally-backed Student Loans were voted in, the tuition was $700 per year. I had won a New York State Scholarship (25th of 50 given in Monroe County) of #350 per year, and which Syracuse U matched it for the remainder. So I earned my board by working it off in the cafeteria, and paid $60 a semester for my dorm room.
Years thereafter, the University's greed and explosion of loan-funded administration killed the excellence of its product and scholarship. As the unwarranted corruption of the student money market did for every other college in the years to come.
To go to Syracuse, I turned down the $400 a year tuition full Scholarship offered to me by Houghton College, and didn't even think about the tuition-free State Colleges for training in teaching and engineering and trades.