Resources

Vox Cards on Student Debt
Urban Institute’s website on College Affordability

Why Does College Cost So Much?
and
The Road Ahead for America’s Colleges and Universities
Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman

Lower Ed The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
Tressie McMillan Cottom

Paying the Price
College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
Sara Goldrick-Rab

The Student Loan Scam
The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History—and How We Can Fight Back
Alan Michael Collinge

College (Un)Bound
The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students
Jeffrey J. Selingo

Doug Webber
Jeffrey J. Selingo
Preston Cooper
Robert Kelchen
Ronald Ehrenberg
Ryan Craig
Sandy Baum
Sara Goldrick-Rab
Susan Dynarski
Tressie McMillan Cottom

1A – Surviving Student Loans

The Brian Lehrer Show – 30 Issues: Student Debt, Student Loan Debt in NYC, Wiping Away America’s Student Loans

Critical Value Podcast – #34 The Gathering Storm of Student Loans

Educate – A college degree, or your money back

Freakonomics Radio – The $1.5 Trillion Question: How to Fix Student-Loan Debt?

Future U Podcast – What Student Loan Default Rates Really Mean, The financial aid letters mess, Game of Loans

The Indicator – The Loan Ranger, Failing College, College Side Hustle, HAIL To College Access, The Cost Of Student Debt, Why Grad Students Are Taking On More Debt, The Market For Student Loans

Midday on WNYC – Is it Just Me, or Is Tuition Skyrocketing?, Is Working for Free Worth it?, Higher Ed’s Decreasing Retention Rate
On Point – Private Colleges Turn To Tuition Slashing To Stay Alive In Crowded Market

Planet Money – A New Way To Pay For College

Report Card with Nat Malkus – Can income share agreements address college affordability and Accountability Concerns?, For-Profit Higher Education with Andy Rosen

Reveal – Institutions of higher earning

Adam Ruins Everything – How College Loans Got So Evil – His sources are listed here
Khan Academy – Paying for college

Ivory Tower
Fail State
Paid Off (Game Show where contestant can win money to pay their debts)
PBS NewsHour – Some teachers trapped by debt get Education Department help
CNBC – How Harvard and Other Colleges Manage Their Endowments

BFAMFAPhD
The Adventures of Dorrit Little
Sallie Mae Back (Rap Video)

with higher education as their major focus

American Association of State Colleges and Universities
Cornell Higher Education Research Institute
EDU Debtors Union
Education Reform Now
Lumina Foundation
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
Rolling Jubilee
State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO)
Student Loan Hero
The College Board
The Delta Cost Project
The Hechinger Report
The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS)
The Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)

that have important higher education research divisions

American Institutes for Research
Demos
Pew Research Center
The American Enterprise Institute
The Brookings Institution
The Century Foundation
The Hamilton Project
The New America Foundation
Urban Institute
Federal Reserve Bank of New York