Overview

Capturing the voices of Americans living with student debt in the United States, this collection critiques the neoliberal interest-driven, debt-based system of U.S. higher education and offers alternatives to neoliberal capitalism and the corporatized university. Grounded in an understanding of the historical and political economic context, this book offers auto-ethnographic experiences of living in debt, and analyzes alternatives to the current system. Chapter authors address real questions such as, Do collegians overestimate the economic value of going to college? and How does the monetary system that student loans are part of operate? Pinpointing how developments in the political economy are accountable for students’ university experiences, this book provides an authoritative contribution to research in the fields of educational foundations and higher education policy and finance.

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Author:   Nicholas Hartlep ,  Lucille Eckrich ,  Brandon Hensley
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9781138194656

ISBN 10:   1138194654
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   17 May 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Alan M. Collinge Preface Nicholas D. Hartlep, Lucille L. T. Eckrich, and Brandon O. Hensley Acknowledgments PART I - Critical Perspectives on Financing Higher Education in the United States Financing Higher Education in the United States: An Historical Overview of Loans in Federal Financial Aid Policy Enyu Zhou and Pilar Mendoza Bankruptcy Means-Testing, Austerity Measures, and Student Loan Debt Linda Elizabeth Coco African American Student Loan Debt: Deferring the Dream of Higher Education Cynthia D. Levy Monetary Critique and Student Debt Lucille L. T. Eckrich PART II -The Debt That Won’t Go Away: Stories of Non-Dischargeable Student Debt The Rise of the Adjuncts: Neoliberalism Invades the Professoriate Amy E. Swain ""BFAMFAPhD"": An Adjunct Professor’s Personal Experience With Student Debt Long After Leaving Graduate School Celeste M. Walker Debt(s) We Can’t Walk Out On: National Adjunct Walkout Day, Complicity, and the Neoliberal Threat to Social Movements in the Academy Brandon O. Hensley Misplaced Faith in the American Dream: Buried in Debt in the Catacombs of the Ivory Tower Brian R. Horn An Adjunct Professor’s Communication Barriers With Neoliberal Student Debt Collectors Antonio L. Ellis ""Golden Years"" in the Red: Student Loan Debt as Economic Slavery Kay Ann Taylor Should I Go Back to College? Melissa A. Del Rio PART III - Alternatives to American Neoliberal Financing of Higher Education Free Tuition: Prospects for Extending Free Schooling Into the Postsecondary Years James C. Palmer and Melissa R. Pitcock ""Work Colleges"" as an Alternative to Student Loan Debt Nicholas D. Hartlep and Diane R. Dean It Takes More Than a Village, It Takes a Nation Daniel A. Collier, T. Jameson Brewer, P.S. Myers, and Allison Witt Monetary Transformation and Public Education Lucille L. T. Eckrich Reflections on the Future: Setting the Agenda for a Post-Neoliberal U.S. Higher Education Nicholas D. Hartlep, Brandon O. Hensley, and Lucille L. T. Eckrich List of Contributors Index of Names Index of Subjects"

Reviews

This book is a must-read for those who are concerned about whether the United States' higher education system has the potential to fulfill students' dreams and desires of finding permanent, well-paying jobs or whether it becomes merely a bastion for corporations to feed their coffers and centralize their power. --Bradley J. Porfilio, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at California State University, East Bay USA This book makes an important contribution as it examines the student loan industry, exposes the neoliberal predatory lender tactics, the total lack of protection for student borrowers, and the need for changes in the industry. This book also highlights how the student debt industry has become a hegemonic tool mediating between the corporate centers of power and the common student/citizen. This book further helps to identify and illuminate the conditions in which student debt operates today and how it teaches students/citizens their place, their roles and their responsibilities as economic pawns in this neoliberal financial chess match. --Sheila Macrine, Professor of Teacher Education, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, USA An instructive, appropriately personal, empirically grounded, and impressively critical indictment of the U.S. student debt crisis and its capitalistic, neoliberal undercurrents. This timely text advances important conversations about a pressing education policy issue that affects millions of Americans, corrupts colleges and universities, and undermines our nation's economic wellness. --Shaun R. Harper, Clifford and Betty Allen Professor of Education, University of Southern California, USA

This book is a must-read for those who are concerned about whether the United States' higher education system has the potential fulfill students' dreams and desires of finding permanent, well-paying jobs or whether it becomes merely a bastion for corporations to feed their coffers and centralize their power. --Bradley J. Porfilio, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at California State University, East Bay USA This book makes an important contribution as it examines the student loan industry, exposes the neoliberal predatory lender tactics, the total lack of protection for student borrowers, and the need for changes in the industry. This book also highlights how student debt industry has become a hegemonic tool mediating between the corporate centers of power and the common student/citizen. This book further helps to identify and illuminate the conditions in which student debt operates today and how it teaches students/citizens their place, their roles and their responsibilities as economic pawns in this neoliberal financial chess match. --Sheila Macrine, Professor of Teacher Education, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, USA

This book is a must-read for those who are concerned about whether the United States' higher education system has the potential fulfill students' dreams and desires of finding permanent, well-paying jobs or whether it becomes merely a bastion for corporations to feed their coffers and centralize their power. --Bradley J. Porfilio, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at California State University, East Bay USA This book makes an important contribution as it examines the student loan industry, exposes the neoliberal predatory lender tactics, the total lack of protection for student borrowers, and the need for changes in the industry. This book also highlights how student debt industry has become a hegemonic tool mediating between the corporate centers of power and the common student/citizen. This book further helps to identify and illuminate the conditions in which student debt operates today and how teaches students/citizens their place, their roles and their responsibilities as economic pawns in this neoliberal financial chess match. --Sheila Macrine, Professor of Teacher Education, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, USA

Author Information

Nicholas D. Hartlep is Assistant Professor of Urban Education at Metropolitan State University, USA. Lucille L. T. Eckrich is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations at Illinois State University, USA. Brandon O. Hensley is Basic Course Director and Lecturer in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University, USA.

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