A lunchtime panel Friday at SMU will shed light on the country’s student-loan debt crisis, and ponder ways to go about fixing it. The event begins at noon in Simmons Hall.
“Americans are less able to afford college today than they were a decade ago, and this condition has helped increase loan indebtedness,” discussion moderator and professor/associate dean Michael McClendon said in a press release. “There are concrete steps, however, that students and their families, colleges and universities, states and communities can take to lessen these problems.”
I’m all ears. Or would be, if I could afford a pair.
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