Ivory Tower

If you're considering college for your children or are just a concerned citizen, this comprehensive documentary gives you a lot to ponder.
-- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

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Ivory Tower

As tuition rates spiral beyond reach and student loan debt passes $1 trillion (more than credit card debt), IVORY TOWER asks: Is college worth the cost? From the halls of Harvard, to public colleges in financial crisis, to Silicon Valley, filmmaker Andrew Rossi (PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES) assembles an urgent portrait of a great American institution at the breaking point.

Through interviews profiled at Arizona State, Cooper Union, and Sebastian Thrun's Udacity -- among several others -- IVORY TOWER reveals how colleges in the United States, long regarded as leaders in higher education, came to embrace a business model that often promotes expansion over quality learning. Along the way we also find unique programs, from Stanford to the free desert school Deep Springs to the historically black all women's college Spelman, where the potential for life-changing college experiences endure.
PG-13
Genre
Documentary
Web Site
http://www.takepar…
Runtime
90
Language
English
Director
Andrew Rossi
FEATURED REVIEW
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York

When national student-loan debt crested a trillion dollars in 2013, the think pieces came fast and furious—was higher education even worth it? Andrew Rossi’s excellent doc cools down the anti-intellectual rhetoric, weighing the real costs of crippling debt against the transformative power of ...

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