This is, after all, what the students are paying in their tuition, which is becoming a major burden on the American middle class.

(Ironically, "tuition" as a word promises that the money is mostly spent on teaching, not on administration and amenities.)

There is a strange reluctance on the American liberal left to criticize greediness in academia or even acknowledge that such thing exists. Politically, I get it, the academia is overwhelmingly liberal-left, so there is an instinct not to alienate it. But there surely must be some upper bound to the growth of tuition costs, after which the burden becomes unbearable.