Paying the Price: How the High Cost of College Impacts Students and Families

Here’s an episode from the “No Jargon” podcast that discusses the difficulty many students are having paying for their college education and how this impacts them and their families.  It also grapples with the prospects of realizing the American Dream when the surest path to upward mobility is prohibitively expensive.

The guest on this episode is Sara Goldrick-Rab, a sociologist at Temple University, who offers insight and makes a few interesting policy proposals based on her research.

Paying the Price – From the Scholar Strategy Network’s No Jargon Podcast
Sara Goldrick-Rab (run time is approximately 25 minutes)