Universities that are funded by federal research grants and tuition payed for by Department of Education-guaranteed loans cannot be called privatized by any str

Universities that are funded by federal research grants and tuition payed for by Department of Education-guaranteed loans cannot be called privatized by any stretch of imagination. The mess that exists in the US higher-ed system mirrors the mess in the US health-care system. Providing tax breaks and public funding, and then letting the beneficiaries of that funding do whatever they see fit with it is arguably what created the mess in the first place.