Student debt
Subtitle: a reference handbook
By: William Elliott III and Melinda K. Lewis
Contributors: Lewis, Melinda K., author
Series: Contemporary world issues series; Contemporary world issues
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781440844874
Subjects: College graduates; Student loans; Personal Finance; College costs; Handbooks, manuals
Description: Offering answers to essential questions about student debt and many connected issues, this book examines student debt in the United States at every stage of the process--from the banks that issue the loans to the colleges and universities that collect the payments.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Background and history; title: Problems, controversies, and solutions; title: Perspectives; title: Profiles; title: Data and documents; title: Resources; title: Chronology.; title: pt. 1. Background and history; title: 1958 : National Defense Student Loan program; title: 1965 : The Higher Education Act-Loan Guarantees; title: 1972 : Education amendments; title: Ascendance of student loans within the financial aid system; title: Sallie Mae; title: 1978 : Middle-Income Student Assistance Act; title: 1980s : Student loans become the dominant paradigm in financial aid; title: Changing perceptions of student loans; title: pt. 2. Problems, controversies, and solutions : following borrowers, protecting creditors; title: defining the "problem" as one of repayment strain leads to narrowly focused "solutions; title: "Tweaks around the margins rather than fundamental reconsiderations; title: Information as the answer; title: Putting a lid on student borrowing-is "nothing" better than student debt?; title: Channeling momentum for good; title: Free college?; title: How about a bailout?; title: pt. 3. Perspectives : student debt : how did we get here and why should we worry? / Mark Huelsman; title: student loans and bankruptcy in the United States / Rajeev Darolia; title: Advice from our side of the FAFSA / acott and Mandy Sponholtz; title: Developing a mind-set for paying off student debt / Phil Schuman; title: Education : still valuable, just not equitable / Melinda Lewis; title: The college conundrum-does student debt cancel out the value of higher education? / Aaron Conrad; title: Profiled. Researchers; title: Journalists; title: Research and policy organizations; title: Organizations providing resources and relief for borrowers; title: Student groups and movements; title: Media organizations; title: Data and documents.