Beth Akers featured on NYS Writers Institute

In an interview with the NYS Writers Institute, Beth Akers explains why college is still a smart investment and reveals how to stack the odds in your favor by employing strategic decision-making. She cuts through the romanticism we often attach to college decision-making and teaches the reader how to make decisions that are grounded in data and fact. Watch the interview.

She is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of "Making College Pay." She earned her BS in mathematics and economics from UAlbany and a PhD in economics from Columbia.