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ENC 1101 - Van Dyke: Recommended Readings

What does college cost? Recommended readings

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"Amid Rising College Costs, A Defense Of The Liberal Arts." Weekend All Things Considered 3 Aug. 2014. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 28 Sept. 2014.  Link

Bauman, Dan. "I Called 4 Companies for Advice on My Student Debt. This Is What I Learned." The Chronicle of Higher Education 60.44 (2014). Academic OneFile. Web. 28 Sept. 2014.  Link

Burns, Robert L. "Crying About Student Debt? What Else Are They Spending On?" The Chronicle of Higher Education 60.26 (2014). Academic OneFile. Web. 22 Sept. 2014. Link

Bybee, Roger. "Corporate tax breaks drive student debt." The Progressive May 2014: 26+. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 28 Sept. 2014.  Link

Doubleday, Justin. "New Graduates Will Enter a Slowly Improving Job Market." The Chronicle of Higher Education 60.13 (2013). Academic OneFile. Web. 22 Sept. 2014.  Link

Frank, Thomas.   "College is Ripping You Off: Students Are Cash Cows, and Schools the Predators. Salon.com , 1 Oct. 2014. Web. 2 Oct. 2014. Link

Fry, John A. "Put Undergraduates to Work, for Their Own Good." The Chronicle of Higher Education 60.19 (2014).Academic OneFile. Web. 28 Sept. 2014.  Link

Gonzalez Canche, Manuel S. "Is the community college a less expensive path toward a bachelor's degree? public 2- and 4-year colleges' impact on loan debt." Journal of Higher Education 85.5 (2014): 723+. Academic OneFile. Web. 22 Sept. 2014. Link

Gregory, Jessica L. "The student debt crisis: a synthesized solution for the next potential bubble." North Carolina Banking Institute 18 (2014): 481+. Academic OneFile. Web. 22 Sept. 2014. Link

Harvey, Taylor. "Cost and Financial Aid Increasingly Influence Students' Choice of College." The Chronicle of Higher Education 60.26 (2014). Academic OneFile. Web. 22 Sept. 2014.  Link

Hebel, Sara. "From Public Good to Private Good: How Higher Education Got to a Tipping Point; How Higher Education Got to a Tipping Point." The Chronicle of Higher Education 60.25 (2014). Academic OneFile. Web. 22 Sept. 2014.  Link

Kelderman, Eric. "Colleges Hard-Pressed to Explain Variations in Price." The Chronicle of Higher Education 60.36 (2014). Academic OneFile. Web. 22 Sept. 2014.  Link

Oguntoyinbo, Lekan. "Life line: several programs have been devised at institutions to aid first-generation and low-income students." Diverse Issues in Higher Education 28 Aug. 2014: 11+. Academic OneFile. Web. 22 Sept. 2014.  Link

"Paying tuition a challenge as costs skyrocket and aid varies." Pittsburgh Tribune-Review [Pittsburgh, PA] 21 Sept. 2014.Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 28 Sept. 2014.  Link

"Preparing Gen Y for a harder path forward; Millennials faced with high student debt and a tougher job market will have to be smarter money managers, so it's time to start now." Globe & Mail [Toronto, Canada] 23 Sept. 2014: B10. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 28 Sept. 2014.  Link

Roth, Michael S. "The False Promise of 'Practical' Education." The Chronicle of Higher Education 60.36 (2014).Academic OneFile. Web. 28 Sept. 2014. Link

Schneider, Carol Geary. "Did you know? Employers do not want narrow, illiberal learning!" Liberal Education 99.1 (2013): 2+. Academic OneFile. Web. 22 Sept. 2014.  Link

Selingo, Jeffrey. "The Overworked Bachelor's Degree Needs a Makeover." The Chronicle of Higher Education 60.39 (2014). Academic OneFile. Web. 28 Sept. 2014.  Link

Supiano, Beckie. "How Liberal-Arts Majors Fare Over the Long Haul." The Chronicle of Higher Education 60.20 (2014). Academic OneFile. Web. 22 Sept. 2014.  Link 

Tabarrok, Alex. "Tuning In to Dropping Out." The Chronicle of Higher Education 58.27 (2012). Academic OneFile. Web. 28 Sept. 2014.  Link

Weiss, Suzanne. "Higher ed-aches: states are searching for ways to control the ever-increasing costs of a college education." State Legislatures 40.2 (2014): 14+. Academic OneFile. Web. 22 Sept. 2014.  Link