Panel:
The Great Recession and Student Debt
(Education)
Friday, November 4, 2016: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Columbia 4 (Washington Hilton)
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
Panel Organizers: Tatyana Guzman, Cleveland State University
Panel Chairs: Amy Ellen Schwartz, New York University
Discussants: Megan E. Hatch, Cleveland State University
The proposed panel includes three papers that research several perspectives on postsecondary education, including student debt and college matriculation in the wake of the Grate Recession, and advise government officials, among other things, on how to make higher education more effective. All three proposals seem to fit well with the conference theme of “The Role of Research in Making Government More Effective”.
Two papers by Houle and Addo, and by Guzman, Lozano, Pirog, and Jung study student debt and student loans. Houle and Addo specifically analyze the issues of racial disparities in student debt. Guzman, Lozano, Pirog, and Jung study the factors which contributed to the increase in student loans, and specifically look at the impact of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 on student debt. The third paper by Petre analyzes enrollment and persistence of community college students during the Great Recession.
The authors, discussant, and the chair of the panel are the PhD students, postdoctoral fellow, and professors representing eight US universities and Korea University. The panel participants also represent diverse races (Black, White, Asian, and Latino), ethnicity, and nationalities.
