September 19, 2008

Professors Are Mired in Student Debt

To the Editor:

Paul R. Wrubel makes interesting points ("Employers Should Help Pay Student Loans for Their Workers," The Chronicle, July 25), but what about those of us with tremendous student-loan debt from graduate school who are now college teachers with no relief whatsoever?

Monthly payments on my $100,000 student-loan debt are higher than my mortgage, and I'll be making payments until I retire. And here I am trying to do good for our society by teaching English at a small,

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