List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Alan M. Collinge Preface Nicholas D. Hartlep, Lucille L. T. Eckrich, and Brandon O. Hensley Acknowledgments PART I - Critical Perspectives on Financing Higher Education in the United States Financing Higher Education in the United States: An Historical Overview of Loans in Federal Financial Aid Policy Enyu Zhou and Pilar Mendoza Bankruptcy Means-Testing, Austerity Measures, and Student Loan Debt Linda Elizabeth Coco African American Student Loan Debt: Deferring the Dream of Higher Education Cynthia D. Levy Monetary Critique and Student Debt Lucille L. T.
Eckrich PART II -The Debt That Won't Go Away: Stories of Non-Dischargeable Student Debt The Rise of the Adjuncts: Neoliberalism Invades the Professoriate Amy E. Swain "BFAMFAPhD": An Adjunct Professor's Personal Experience With Student Debt Long After Leaving Graduate School Celeste M. Walker Debt(s) We Can't Walk Out On: National Adjunct Walkout Day, Complicity, and the Neoliberal Threat to Social Movements in the Academy Brandon O. Hensley Misplaced Faith in the American Dream: Buried in Debt in the Catacombs of the Ivory Tower Brian R. Horn An Adjunct Professor's Communication Barriers With Neoliberal Student Debt Collectors Antonio L. Ellis "Golden Years" in the Red: Student Loan Debt as Economic Slavery Kay Ann Taylor Should I Go Back to College? Melissa A. Del Rio PART III - Alternatives to American Neoliberal Financing of Higher Education Free Tuition: Prospects for Extending Free Schooling Into the Postsecondary Years James C. Palmer and Melissa R.
Pitcock "Work Colleges" as an Alternative to Student Loan Debt Nicholas D. Hartlep and Diane R. Dean It Takes More Than a Village, It Takes a Nation Daniel A. Collier, T. Jameson Brewer, P.S. Myers, and Allison Witt Monetary Transformation and Public Education Lucille L. T.
Eckrich Reflections on the Future: Setting the Agenda for a Post-Neoliberal U.S. Higher Education Nicholas D. Hartlep, Brandon O. Hensley, and Lucille L. T. Eckrich List of Contributors Index of Names Index of Subjects.