%0 Journal Article %T It¡¯s Time to Broaden the Conversation About the Student Debt Crisis Beyond Rising Tuition Costs %A Loren M. Kirk %A Timothy R. Ulbrich %J Archive of "American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education". %D 2017 %R 10.5688/ajpe816101 %X We all have heard the news about the rising student loan debt and the negative impact this has had on graduates trying to enter the workforce. This student loan debt crisis is a subject of increasing consideration, research, and analysis by federal government agencies, nonprofit organizations, economists, and the students who carry the balance. The extensive body of research from organizations, such as the Pew Research Center, includes staggering statistics that characterize the magnitude of the crisis for graduate and undergraduate students %K student loans %K debt %K personal finance %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5607711/