{"id":5996,"date":"2016-11-02T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2016-11-03T10:29:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T15:29:01","slug":"student-debt-hinders-degree-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2016\/11\/02\/student-debt-hinders-degree-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Debt Hinders Degree Completion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the cost of tuition rising at many public universities and a scarcity of aid from federal and state agencies alike, it is difficult to obtain a college education without incurring a mountain of debt in the United States. <\/span>Wisconsin Public Radio<\/a>\u00a0talked with\u00a0<\/span>sociologist <\/span>Sara Goldrick-Rab<\/a>\u00a0about her research on student debt<\/a> and the ways it hinders students from completing their degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite receiving Pell grants or other forms of federal aid, half of the 3,000 students in Goldrick-Rab’s study had dropped out within six years, and only twenty percent had completed their degrees in five years. She\u00a0argues that attrition occurs because these forms of aid do not cover the large majority of costs for either two-year and four-year institutions. Specifically, state sources of funding do not hold up their end of the deal, which leads to tuition hikes at many state schools. As a result, many students are forced to decide between basic necessities and continuing their education. As Goldrick-Rab notes: <\/span><\/p>\n

“The cost of living in this country is substantial and some college students are going without their basic needs met. It is very clear that hunger and homelessness are not strangers to undergraduates now, and that\u2019s pretty devastating.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Goldrick-Rab suggests that a possible solution is to make two-year associate\u2019s degrees free. That way “you know what you\u2019re getting from it, before you get involved in the risk involved of using debt to finance it.” Higher education is foundational to the future of the United States, so we must start investing more in students instead of making them\u00a0choose between their next meal and earning a college degree. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the cost of tuition rising at many public universities and a scarcity of aid from federal and state agencies alike, it is difficult to obtain a college education without incurring a mountain of debt in the United States. Wisconsin Public Radio\u00a0talked with\u00a0sociologist Sara Goldrick-Rab\u00a0about her research on student debt and the ways it hinders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[34,39110,40373],"class_list":["post-5996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inequality","tag-education","tag-inequality","tag-student-debt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6002,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/6002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}