>money isn't an issue
The universities don't think that I assure you. They are extremely pleased whenever some goofy kid who just picked up a pencil a few months ago stumbled into their admissions department

It's because of our collective timidity and reliance on long-dated convention a committed art educator who can make a statement like this in the pic has to go back on his own words (both in this image and in the OP) and take a job at a university as he very recently did (SCAD in Georgia). He's offered affordable courses for years, even going so far as to purchase an old boxing gym to host drawing sessions in, but ultimately he's had to make the decision to align himself with a university he knows is taking advantage of the young people who will be his students. Despite how things have changed, too many of us are stuck in the now distant past.

He will be a credit to the university to be sure, but this never should have needed to happen. There is nothing these schools can do that we can't do ourselves and/or for each other he and so many others are proof of that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm_gOjVo67M