I am baffled by the first paragraph, which begins "Getting a good college education turns out to be a lot easier than it used to be."

Can he possibly be saying that cheating in a class to get a high grade is "getting a good education"?

Or is this just an attempt at sarcasm?

Or was it simply a typo, and he meant to write something like "getting through college" instead?

In the current anti-intellectual period in my country (US), it can hard to figure out who is kidding and who isn't.