There's an old blog that addresses this topic: https://professorconfess.blogspot.com/ https://professorconfess.blogspot.com/ It correlates student loans with

There's an old blog that addresses this topic: https://professorconfess.blogspot.com/ https://professorconfess.blogspot.com/ It correlates student loans with the destruction of academic integrity. The idea is school administrators want to capture as many student loan dollars as possible, and that means maximizing the number of enrolled students. To that end, complexity, rigor and difficulty are all reduced as much as possible. Students are prevented from failing, since if they fail they might drop out, reducing profits. I even remember one article which draws comparisons with russian education.