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Student Debt Crisis Teach-Out

Understanding Student Debt / Lesson 1 of 11

Why Student Loans are Unique

5 minutes

In the previous module, we learned about the history and context of student loans. In this lesson, we start to understand what makes student loans unique and what implications they can have on a borrower’s life.

In this video, we hear from Dalié Jiménez, a Professor of Law and the Director of the Student Loan Law Initiative at the University of California, Irvine, who discusses how student loans are different from other kinds of loans.

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