More debt, lower salaries await many college graduates Christian Druce Jones was fairly certain he wanted to attend North Central College in Naperville to study psychology until his mother brought the College of the Ozarks to his attention. Druce Jones realizes what many other high school and college students are learning: A bachelor’s degree, once viewed as the gateway to a comfortable middle-class lifestyle, is becoming less of a sure bet in the face of rising college costs and a postgraduation job market under siege by the Great Recession. Sean F. Driscoll, Rockford Register Star, May 3, 2010