1,000+ Professors Call For Full Student Debt Cancellation and Tuition-Free College [Business Insider]

 The flava:

Canceling student debt won't solve all the inequities in higher education — but it's a vital first step,
professors say.

Over 1,000 faculty members from universities across the country, including Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan, signed a letter urging President Joe Biden to deliver on full student debt cancellation for federal borrowers. The letter, which was organized by the Debt Collective — the nation's first debtor's union — and obtained by Insider, said that the growing $1.7 trillion student debt crisis is causing "instructional harm," forcing borrowers to assume studies that would best help them pay off their debt. They say it has also exacerbated the labor shortage for faculty, because many of them are student debtors themselves.

The article:

https://www.businessinsider.com/read-why-1000-professors-support-universal-student-loan-debt-cancellation-2022-3