The system that we've designed for students to pay for college is out of whack. Many college students emerge from their schooling these days with thousands and thousands of dollars in debt, without the job prospects to justify it. According to promotion for Monday's lecture with Professor of Economics at Seattle University and Seattle Central Community College Kshama Sawant, "Student debt has exploded in the US and globally, with the average college senior graduating with more than $25,000 in student loans." Sawant will discuss this alarming statistic as well as the low wage job prospects and youth unemployment rate as part of a presentation titled, "The Student Debt Explosion: The New Indentured Servitude?"

According to promotion for the event, in addition to her positions at Seattle University and Seattle Central Community College, is "a member of Socialist Alternative in Seattle, and has been involved in political activism in the Occupy movement, in the anti-war movement, in the LGBT movement, and against the oppression of women and people of color."

[The Evergreen State College - Seminar Building 2, Room D1107, open to the public, free, 7-9 p.m., 2700 Evergreen Pkwy NW, Olympia, 360.867.6000]