Dr.
William Elliott III, associate professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas, and
Melinda Lewis, associate professor of practice in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas, explore the landscape of the US higher education student loan situation in
The Real College Debt Crisis: How Student Borrowing Threatens Financial Well-Being and Erodes the American Dream (Praeger 2015). Using real-life examples along with academically rooted studies, the authors attempt to answer the question, "Does the student who goes to college and graduates but has outstanding student debt achieve similar financial outcomes to the student who graduates from college without student debt?"
Co-author Melinda Lewis joins
New Books in Education for the interview to discuss the book. For questions or comments on the podcast, you can also find the host on Twitter at
@PoliticsAndEd. You can also find the authors on Twitter at
@melindaklewis and Dr. Elliott's organization at
@AssetsEducation.