Student debt issues
The issues in higher education that academic or student affairs leaders must address:
Student debt issues
Research institutional challenges related to your chosen issue.
Explore best practices for leadership collaboration in higher education.
Write a 1050- to 1400-word paper in which you explain the issue and provide recommendations for how the leadership of the academic affairs and student
affairs departments can collaborate to address this issue. Your paper should:
Describe the nature of the issue.
Outline the factors contributing to the issue.
Explain the impact of the issue on students, staff, and faculty.
Recommend strategies for alleviating the issue.
Outline opportunities for collaboration between academic affairs and student affairs to address the issue. Considerations include:
What is the desired outcome for collaboration?
Who are the stakeholders? Who will interact to develop the collaboration?
What are some foreseeable problems in collaboration and strategies to reduce these problems?
Outline opportunities to collaborate with community partners to resolve the issue. Considerations include:
Funding opportunities
Mutually beneficial relationships.
Potential conflicts of interest
Sample Solution
Higher education provides students many socioeconomic benefits and increases the global competitiveness of the United States, but mounting student loan debt has sparked a debate over federal lending policies. Student loan debt in the United States has grown enormously in recent years and is now one of the largest forms of consumer borrowing in the country. Student debt has more than doubled over the last two decades. As of September 2022, about forty-eight million U.S. borrowers collectively owed more than $1.6 trillion in federal student loans. Additional private loans bring that total to above $1.7 trillion, surpassing auto loans and credit card debt. Most U.S. students have an incentive to borrow because higher education is typically required for the highest-paying jobs.
