Nicholas D. Hartlep - The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis in U.S. Higher Education

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 autoethnographic 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 questionable biases in our political economy are determinative, this book provides an authoritative contribution to research in the fields of educational foundations and higher education policy and finance.

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.

Series editor: Dave Hill,Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford and Cambridge, England

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5The Gates Foundation and the Future of US Public Schools

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6Colonized Schooling Exposed

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7Underprivileged School Children and the Assault on Dignity

Policy Challenges and Resistance

Edited by Julia Hall

8Hegemony and Education under Neoliberalism

Insights from Gramsci

By Peter Mayo

9Female Students and Cultures of Violence in Cities

Edited by Julia Hall

10Neoliberal Education Reform

Gendered Notions in Global and Local Contexts

By Sarah A. Robert

11Curriculum Epistemicide

Towards An Itinerant Curriculum Theory

By Joo M. Paraskeva

12Alternatives to Privatizing Public Education and Curriculum

Festschrift in Honor of Dale D. Johnson

Edited by Daniel Ness & Stephen J. Farenga

13The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis in U.S. Higher Education

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

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

First published 2017

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