My current research question is:
→ How and why do American universities became privatized in a public higher education?
3 Academic Sources are:
→ Cooper, Melinda. “In Loco Parentis: Human Capital, Student Debt, and the Logic of Family Investment.” Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism. Zone Books, 2017. 215-257.
→ Zaloom, Caitlin. “Enmeshed Autonomy.” Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost. Princeton UP, 2019. 95-121.
→ Ecochard, Sidonie, and Julia Fotheringham. “International Students’ Unique Challenges – Why Understanding International Transitions to Higher Education Matters.” Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, vol. 5, no. 2, 2017, doi:10.14297/jpaap.v5i2.261.
I am glad you find Cooper and Zaloom useful, but you should definitely be finding more sources that specifically discuss international students.
ReplyDeleteYour post does get me thinking about how many international students actually have to finance their educations through debt. I assume that the majority are from relatively affluent families that would typically not need to take on debt to finance their child's higher education -- or, if they did, they could use equity in their homes or other assets and would face lower financing challenges. But, then, for the less affluent families of international students, there might be some challenges getting financing. I assume they do not qualify for government backed student loans, for example. This would be interesting to know about, if you are looking into the economic challenges of international students.