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Summary:

In recent decades, the crisis of college affordability has emerged as one of the defining challenges of our era. Since 1978, college tuition and fees have soared by 1,120 percent, growing at three times the rate of housing prices and four times the rate of the increase in the hourly wage. The inevitable consequence has resulted in a national student debt that surpassed 1.3 trillion in 2015, crushing the average household under 35,000 in student debt. Breaking Point explains flaws in the structure of higher education that have caused college prices to soar over our lifetime, including "prestige.

Table of Contents:

• Sowing the seeds of crisis
• Tanked by rank
• Penniless for perks
• Lending roots : inception of greed
• Sallie Mae : the rise of a lending empire
• Rigged
• Breaking backs to balance budgets
• A stake in the game
• The new American college & university
• .

Author/Creator:

Connell, Kevin, 1992- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Breaking point: the college affordability crisis and our next financial bubble [by Connell, K.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Breaking point [by Connell, K.] (Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016] — ISBN 9781475826029; LCCN 2016019223)

Subjects:

College costs — United States

United States — Economic conditions — 21st century

2000-2099

Economic conditions

College costs

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
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Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LB2342 .C666 2016eb

ISBNs:

9781475826043
1475826044
9781475826029 (cloth, alk. paper) [Invalid]
1475826028 (cloth, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9781475826036 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]
1475826036 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2016032004

OCLC Numbers:

953525511

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4721299 (source: MiAaPQ)