Around 1980, there was a decision that was made --again, for wholly greedy reasons-- that universities were sitting on a goldmine. This be seen with Sallie Mae going from
a government organization for student loans to a publicly traded corporation, but there has also been a marked shift in the politics and structure of universities (It's only now, after a decade of the most heavy-hitting policies, and
people are starting to be open about it). As long as you could build up marketing teams and sell university like it was any other product, and then get the government (with Sallie Mae and it's shareholders making tons of money --socialize costs but privatize profits) to pay for the student loans, everything was gravy. Then all they had to do, once they got control of the universities, was to just push those useless professors out of the way and replace them temporary contracts --but that's a separate conversation. Needless to say, we're currently tearing down our university system to sifts for the gold in the walls.
Needless to say, this only works, however, if you actually get people to buy your product. But since the product is education, it has the negative aspect of actually getting a broad swath of the public exposed to dangerous things like "facts," "critical thinking," "logic," and "inquiry."
He wasn't supposed to make it this far remember? The media up until now has been ignoring him and covering Trump, Trump, Trump!