ABSTRACT
This chapter offers the critical reflections on the potential of moving away from debt-based higher education and set an agenda for advancing "post-neoliberal" policy and practice. The neoliberal war on higher education renders students and graduates with unmanageable mountains of student debt as collateral damage. Since neoliberal ideology is self-insulating, it conceals unfortunate truths on the damage inflicted upon student debtors, its victims. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores how student loan borrowing at "Work Colleges" compares to student loan borrowing at comparable institutions. It examines the percentage of students who borrow, the average amount students borrow a year, and the level of student debt that graduates of Work Colleges leave with compared to peers who graduate from other comparable institutions. The book explores the viability of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding as a means to assist with student loan debt.
