Higher Education Cost Crisis Part 2 / Questions That Have No Right Answer

Segment 1:Guests: Mark Kantrowitz, financial aid expert; Sandy Baum, higher education expert, nonresident senior fellow, Center on Education Data and Policy, Urban Institute. The average cost of attending a four-year, public college has ballooned to $27,800 per year. This equates to more than $110,000 spent to have an undergraduate degree. Even with current financial aid, for millions of students, it’s not feasible to dig themselves into lifelong debt. We speak with two higher education experts about what needs to change with financial aid in America. https://www.nasfaa.org/issue_brief_double_pell Segment 2: Guest: Dr. Gregory Stock, bioethicist, author of The Book of Questions.We all want answers to the complicated questions in life, but sometimes just asking the questions are enough to make us think deeply about our lives and our world. We talk to bioethicist Dr. Gregory Stock who’s made a living asking questions that sometimes have no hard and fast answers. https://tinyurl.com/2sp8a6d2