A Government Guarantee for Banks: The Origins of America’s Student Loan & College Financial Crises
Why are millions of Americans drowning in student debt and many colleges across the United States predicted to close by 2030?
A Government Guarantee for Banks: The Origins of America’s Student Loan & College Financial Crises
07 Mar 2023, 18:00 – 19:30
Many blame recent funding cuts but Americans have always been loathe to fund colleges and universities. Politicians, including leading liberals, have preferred to offer young people help paying for tuition. They even promised bankers repayment on student loans that never assured that students would have equal opportunities to enroll or that campuses would receive much needed revenue.
We are delighted to host Professor Elizabeth Shermer (Loyola University) as our distinguished guest speaker for the UCL Americas Richard E Neustadt Annual Lecture 2023
Professor Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Associate Professor of History
Loyola University Chicago
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer was the Paul Mellon Fellow of American History at Cambridge University and is currently an associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. Her work includes op-eds, academic articles, edited collections, and scholarly books, including Sunbelt Capitalism (2013) and Indentured Students, which Harvard University Press published under its Belknap Press imprint in August 2021. She is finishing a book on the public/private character of American higher education, tentatively titled, The Business of Education .
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