Driving cost reductions must be the explicit purpose and primary design of deployment policies and achieving consistent reductions in the unsubsidized cost of clean energy technologies must be the metric that rationalizes deployment investments.
When debt is treated more like a utility, with the lender managing risk so there is a high probability the loan and the agreed-upon yield will be paid, such lending is more consistent with its economic purpose.
Not necessarily a bad thing, in fact if you understand thepurpose of the university to be to enhance the private return on private investment it's clearly consistent with that.