<p>^your post is naive, univs even, and especially, the ones with the most assets are trying everything in their power to increase financial aid in the long term. the method to achieve this is increasing the size of the endowment and having a large endowment size in the first place. Sustainable growth implies that any university can only use approximately 5% of its endowment in a given year, the larger the endowment the greater that 5% is. If they were to use much more of it each year the endowment would shrink and eventually nothing will be left of it, then we’ll really be saying “yay progressivism!”.</p>