Sajay Samuel: How college loans exploit students for profit
ساجاي صامويل: كيف تستغل القروض الجامعية الطلاب بغرض الربح
Professor Sajay Samuel's proposal to reduce the burden of student loans is part of his larger preoccupation with thinking beyond the conventional categories of economics and ecology. Full bio
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for their passage to the new economy.
وهو ما يمثل ضريبة عبورهم للإقتصاد الجديد.
more than one trillion US dollars.
ترلليون دولار أمريكي.
that is secured on their person.
gets a second chance.
their student loan debts.
graduating with debt.
التخرج منها بديون.
graduated from Colorado State University
as a public good.
from Colorado State University,
ولاية كلورادو،
by working part-time.
من خلال عمله الجزئي.
was affordable, reasonable,
you paid off by graduation date.
تستطيع أن تسددها بحلول وقت التخرج.
has become unaffordable
لا يمكن تحملها
إن لم يكن أغلبها.
an expensive education
that you earned from it.
meets the road.
earned 10 percent more in 2001
يزيد بنسبة %10
than a quarter of those who must
ربع الذين يتوجب عليهم
can be the best of times,
أفضلها على الإطلاق،
in ways that you can't ignore.
على الشهادات
is a consumer product you can buy.
استهلاكياً يمكنكم شراؤه.
just as the economists do now,
يفعل الإقتصادييون بالضبط،
to improve the human stock
تطوير الرصيد البشري
to sort and classify people
can hire them more easily.
توظيفهم بسهولة أكبر.
ranks colleges
الجامعات
rates washing machines.
and soccer and science,
of the student loan industry.
القرض الطلابي.
of 1.2 billion dollars.
تعادل 1.2 مليار دولار.
رزم وعرضها في شرائح وتكعيبها،
and packaged and sliced and diced,
(شارع المال والبورصة)
in the higher education business
مجال صناعة التعليم العالي
that they pretend to educate?
أنهم يعلّمونهم؟
of addiction and envy."
upgraded versions of an iPhone,
محدثة من جهاز آي فون،
more and more education.
on certifications and recertifications,
والتصديقات
as a status object.
of a Louis Vuitton bag,
ليكزس بحقيبة ماركة (ليويس فويتون)
of envy of others.
hidden by a very noisy sales pitch.
الدعايات المنمّقة.
on television telling us,
التلفاز مخبراً إيانا أن،
الحرفي للكلمة
to a middle-class life."
حياة الطبقة المتوسطة."
is the college premium:
هو قسط الكلية:
56 percent more than a high school grad.
أكثر من خريج المرحلة الثانوية.
بشيء من الإهتمام،
working as baristas and cashiers.
معدّي قهوة ومحاسبين.
in any form of post-secondary education,
من أشكال التعليم ما بعد الثانوي،
including financial.
بأعمال متدنية الأجر.
than high school grads,
خريجي المدارس الثانوية،
الدراسية الباهظة
for only those who complete it.
يكملون فترة الجامعة.
have been cut to the bone,
تم تخفيضها إلى أدنى حد،
of what they have produced.
a bad investment for many.
استثماراً سيئاً بالنسبة للكثيرين.
are not going to find an adequate job.
يحصلوا على عمل ملائم.
doesn't look particularly promising --
مبشراً بوضوح --
about this college premium thing.
لهم بشكل كبير.
higher education as a consumer product?
العالي كمنتج استهلاكي؟
what you're paying for.
miles per gallon to expect.
تسير بغالون واحد.
to the expected income.
حسب الدخل أو أي بي تي.
from a given college and major.
مجال أو كلية معينة.
to the huckster's ploy,
ضحايا لمكر الوكلاء،
of the additional income they earn?
الإضافي الذين يكسبونه؟
to Income-Based Tuition.
على حسب الدخل.
to manage costs better,
التكلفة على نحو أفضل،
the same tuition for every major.
نفس الرسوم الدراسية لكل المجالات.
and should change.
as a consequence,
goes on and earns more money.
ويجني أموالاً أكثر.
buy the same product,
half or a third of the service.
بعض المجالات،
servicing their student debt,
when majors are priced more correctly.
المجالات على نحو أكثر صحة.
of Income-Based Tuition,
حسب الدخل،
and the fact of financial ruin
وحقيقة الخراب المالي
that they really want to.
رغبوا فيها حقاً.
students in America.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sajay Samuel - EducatorProfessor Sajay Samuel's proposal to reduce the burden of student loans is part of his larger preoccupation with thinking beyond the conventional categories of economics and ecology.
Why you should listen
Sajay Samuel is an award winning professor of accounting at the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University. He has organized seminars and lectured widely in Europe and elsewhere on a range of topics, including science and technology, the political economy of professions and decision theory.
Samuel received his Masters in Accounting and Ph.D in Business Administration from Penn State University in 1990 and 1995 respectively. Since then he has taught management accounting and related subjects to undergraduates, graduates, MBAs and Executives over assignments that included stints at Bucknell University and the University of Connecticut. He returned to Penn State in 2003 and now teaches a capstone course to all undergraduate business majors titled, "Business and Industry Analysis."
Samuel was awarded the 2006 Lester J. Shonto Faculty Award for Excellence in Accounting Education. Dr. Samuel's research has been published in such scholarly journals as Accounting, Organizations and Society, Administration Science Quarterly and Symbolic Interaction. His most recent work on accounting, technology and on the history of ideas, has appeared in three articles in the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics (2005). His current research aims at clarifying the political implications of accounting practice. His studies in this area concern the political significance of administrative agencies and professional associations in liberal democratic polities. He has presented the early fruits of this work in France, Italy, Germany and England.
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