Why you should go to college—especially if you can't afford it
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Why you should go to college—especially if you can't afford it Why you should go to college—especially if you can't afford it Class, risk, and reward in American higher education Posted January 5, 2023 We have a problem in America with universal career advice that completely ignores social class. Worse, when we do consider class, we condescend and we pontificate: we don’t ask the hardest questions, and thus we don’t give the best advice. To really have this conversation, we need to get nuanced, but not necessarily in the ways you might think. Consider how differently the cost-benefit analysis
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