Over the last several decades, US public colleges and universities have generally seen a declining share of funding from the chartering governments, relying more on business activity plus student fees.
The student fees and tuition are mostly paid for by government backed student loans. There really isn't any private education in the US past high school.
> The student fees and tuition are mostly paid for by government backed student loans.
Which the student is required to repay, but in any case are not from the chartering government.
> There really isn't any private education in the US past high school
There are plenty of private beyond-high-school educational institutions that don't qualify for government financial aid and thus rely on purely private financing, so even if you consider “accepting government issued loans” as making an institution not-private, there is plenty of private education.
I don't see the government paying for my college... In my experience a majority of my friends have or are on track to have student debt from having to pay for college.
Technically you wouldn't see it even if it was there. For most public universities, it comes as a direct allocation from the state legislature to the university.
1) I would have used "corporatizations" of schools. Running universities as if they were businesses, framing students as customers, etc.
2) Tuition has become a bigger share of the budget for public universities as federal funding has been stagnant and state funding has been cut, which feeds the same problem.
This is probably what is being referred to.