Wrap-Up Exercise

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Section 2.8 Wrap-Up Exercise

(Modified from Jaafar, in Mathematics for Social Justice: Resources for the College Classroom, ed. Gizem Karaali and Lily Khadjavi) Write a $\approx 3$-page letter to a student about to enter college describing what you’ve learned about student loans, including:

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what’s happened to tuition at various types of institutions over the last decades;
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what’s happened at our institution in particular;
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any racial differences in student debt and how confident you are that these differences exist, citing statistics; and
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what you recommend the student does to manage their finances during and after college.
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