40 A Degree Isn't What It Used to Be
Supporting College Students and Non-Completers Amid the Student Debt Crisis
Gloria G. McGillen
Completing a college degree continues to hold tremendous power in the U.S. cultural imagination. Crowds of new graduates flinging their mortar boards into the air are a well-recognized symbol of accomplishment and the expected transition to a life of security relative to those who have not obtained a college degree. But over the last decade, new scenes have started to emerge from college graduations. Mortar boards doubling as billboards, bearing messages like, “Who’s hiring?,” and “$70K,” illustrate the anxieties of millions of millennial and Gen Z college graduates caught amid the ...
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