In “Who Should Pay? Higher Education, Responsibility, and the Public” author Natasha Quadlin takes the reader through the changing opinions on student debt over the past couple of decades.
In this interview Dr. Quadlin discusses how opinions (drawn through surveys and prior research) have changed, and possible implications for the future of how college is paid for in the United States. She discusses how and when opinion has changed and how the views on whether students, parents, state, local, or federal government should pay for college has shifted over time.
0:51 – How did you choose this topic?
1:55 – What is the main argument of this book?
4:15 – Key findings in who pays for higher education
5:36 – What is the future of paying for higher education?
7:10 – Why is this book critical to read?
UCLA Sociology: https://soc.ucla.edu
Interviewer: Dr. Celia Lacayo, Associate Director of Community Engagement, UCLA Social Sciences & Professor Chicana/o & Central American Studies and African American Studies Department
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