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Student Loans

SOURCE: The American Prospect
9/20/2021

The Failure of Financialized Higher Ed

by Kelly Grotke

"Higher education has been captured by a vicious circle of financialization, which is destroying it as an affordable and widely available right of the citizenry, and as an engine of social mobility."

SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
9/17/2021

Indentured Students: Elizabeth Tandy Shermer on Student Debt (Monday, October 4)

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer shows that Democrats and Republicans intentionally wanted to create a student loan industry instead of generously funding colleges and universities, which eventually left millions of Americans drowning in student debt. Zoom, Monday, Oct. 4, 4:00 PM EDT.

SOURCE: Vox
2/25/2021

The Future of the Middle Class Depends on Student Loan Forgiveness

Writer Anne Helen Petersen says that understanding the broken student loan system requires rejecting the narrative of individual choice and focusing on the history and social effects of debt.

SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/22/2020

Even Forgiving Student Loans Won’t Solve The Higher Education Funding Crisis

by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

The federal student loan system has always been a smokescreen for government's failure to support higher education as a public good.

SOURCE: Harvard Magazine
9/8/2020

“Attacking the Concept of Debt”: Challenging Predatory Student Loans Runs Up Against a Long History

A Harvard Law School initiative to check predatory student lending must contend with the entanglement of federal student lending programs and for-profit education providers, which dates to the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights) of 1944.

SOURCE: Portside
3-23-16

An English professor, saddled with student loans, decided to write a history of student loans

Jenny Adams, an Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, discovered the story begins in the Middle Ages.