The College Affordability Crisis

Laurie Collier Hillstrom

The College Affordability Crisis
Format
Hardback
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Country
United States
Published
6 November 2020
Pages
151
ISBN
9781440877230

The College Affordability Crisis

Laurie Collier Hillstrom

This volume provides a comprehensive and evenhanded overview of the escalating college affordability crisis in the United States. It explains how higher education became so expensive and explores the implications of high college loan debt for students and American society.

The 21st Century Turning Point series is a one-stop resource for understanding the people and events changing America today. Each volume provides readers with a clear, authoritative, and unbiased understanding of a single issue or event that is driving national debate about our country’s leaders, institutions, values, and priorities.

This particular volume is devoted to the issue of the rising cost of higher education in the United States. The expense of pursuing a college degree has become so high for so many students, in fact, that the country is experiencing what many educators, economists, parents, and students describe as a college affordability crisis. This work provides an accessible, accurate account of the factors driving this trend, including dramatic reductions in higher education spending by states; for-profit colleges; predatory, unscrupulous, and lightly regulated student loan service companies; and spiraling spending by colleges and universities competing to attract students.

Entries devoted to specific events and milestones related to the student loan crisis

Biographical profiles of important lawmakers, public officials, and reformers

Essays that explore the lasting impact of the college affordability crisis on students, families, institutions of higher education, and American society as a whole

Annotated bibliography of sources for further study

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