The challenge of college affordability : the student lens : hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session ... April 16, 2013.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, author.

Series:

United States. Congress. Senate. S. hrg. ; 113-473.

S. hrg. ; 113-673

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College costs--United States.

College costs.

Education, Higher--United States--Finance.

Education, Higher.

Student aid--United States.

Student aid.

Education, Higher--Finance.

United States.

Genre:

Legislative hearings

Legislative hearings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 49 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Washington : U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2015.

Summary:

In 2012, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions launched a series of hearings to examine the challenge of college affordability. In the first three hearings, the Committee heard from the administration, from both traditional and online universities and community colleges, from State officials, higher education associations, think tanks and researchers, among others. In this fourth and final hearing Committee members examine this issue through the lens of students. Statements from the following Committee members are given: (1) Honorable Tom Harkin (Chairman, opening statement); (2) Honorable Lamar Alexander, a U.S. Senator from the State of Tennessee (opening statement); (3) Honorable Christopher Murphy, a U.S. Senator from the State of Connecticut; (4) Honorable Tammy Baldwin, a U.S. Senator from the State of Wisconsin; (5) Honorable Patty Murray, a U.S. Senator from the State of Washington; (6) Honorable Sheldon Whitehouse, a U.S. Senator from the State of Rhode Island; and (7) Honorable Al Franken, a U.S. Senator from the State of Minnesota. Prepared statements were given by the following witnesses: (1) Ethan Senack, Higher Education Associate, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Washington, DC; (2) Derrica Donelson, Student, Lipscomb University, Nashville, Tennessee; (3) Sara Goldrick-Rab, Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin; and (4) Vivica Brooks, Bowie State University, Bowie, Maryland. Additional material includes response to questions of Senator Bennet by Sara Goldrick-Rab, Ph. D. and Vivica Brooks.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 26, 2015).

Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Challenge of college affordability

Microfiche version: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Challenge of college affordability

Online version: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Challenge of college affordability

OCLC:

919208836