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by drewcoo 1016 days ago
> Schools don't need to be burdened with credit management, nor do they have the capability.

Universities, with their huge endowments and large staffs to manage investments, have already become financial institutions.

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Considering how they manage various scholarships too, would loans be that much to add? They already deal with money in multitude of ways including things like grants. So there shouldn't be that much difference.
Yeah these are good points.

Let schools act as creditors or not, depending on their business model. What's important is that government shouldn't be acting as a misaligned lending institution.