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.
This is probably what is being referred to.
This is probably what is being referred to.
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.