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Is college worth the cost? Groundbreaking filmmaker Andrew Rossi asks the critical question about the value of higher education, revealing how colleges have come to embrace a business model that often promotes expansion over quality learning. With student-loan debt now over the one trillion dollar m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hultquist, Ian (Composer)
Other Authors:	Rossi, Andrew (Screenwriter, director of photography.), Delbanco, Andrew (on-screen participant.), Boone, David (on-screen participant.), Christensen, Clayton M., 1952-2020 (on-screen participant.), Kamenetz, Anya (on-screen participant.), Sobel, Victoria (on-screen participant.), Bharucha, Jamshed (on-screen participant.), Sarknen, Bryan (director of photography.)
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Published:	[Los Angeles, CA] : Paramount Pictures, [2016?]
Subjects:	College costs. Universities and colleges > United States. Student aid > United States. Universités > États-Unis. Étudiants > Aide financière > États-Unis. Universities and colleges. Student aid. United States. Documentaries and Factual Films Documentary films. Feature films. Nonfiction films. Documentaires. Films autres que de fiction.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Swank Digital Campus)

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Summary:	Is college worth the cost? Groundbreaking filmmaker Andrew Rossi asks the critical question about the value of higher education, revealing how colleges have come to embrace a business model that often promotes expansion over quality learning. With student-loan debt now over the one trillion dollar mark, the once-great American institution is at a breaking point. The film explores the current education crisis from the halls of Harvard, to community colleges, to online learning.
Item Description:	Originally released as a documentary film in 2014.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (90 min.)) : sound, color
Audience:	Rating: PG-13; for some suggestive and partying images.
Awards:	Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival, 2014.
Production Credits:	Cinematography, Andrew Rossi, Bryan Sarkinen, Andrew Coffman ; editors, Chad Beck, Christopher Branca, Andrew Coffman ; original music by Ian Hultquist.