Hartlep / Eckrich / Hensley The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis in U.S. Higher Education

Indebted Collegians of the Neoliberal American University
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-27201-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 318 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hartlep, Nicholas D.

Hartlep, Nicholas

Eckrich, Lucille L.T.

Eckrich, Lucille

Hensley, Brandon O.

Hensley, Brandon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung Ausbildungsfinanzierung, Studienfinanzierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

Alan M. Collinger

Preface

Nicholas D. Hartlep, Lucille L. T. Eckrich, and Brandon O. Hensley

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

- Go Back to College? Why Would I?

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, Timothy Jameson Brewer, P.S. Meyers, 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.