Background Information

With the rising tuition costs of colleges and universities, students are borrowing more and more money to finance their higher education, causing the current outstanding student loan debt to reach a historically high level of over 1 trillion dollars. Use the following sources to learn more about student debt and the political, legal, and social issues surrounding it.

Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
Provides news and information services of interest to faculty, administrators and students in the field of higher education. Access to every news article and essay since 1989 and every daily web-only news story since May 1998.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Full-text dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles.
Opposing Viewpoints In Context This link opens in a new window
Covers current social issues. Includes viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.