Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Ivory tower : is college worth the cost? / a CNN Films Production ; produced by Josh Braun ; produced and directed by Andrew Rossi.

Publisher, Date:

[Los Angeles, CA] : Paramount Pictures, [2014]

Description:

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video region 1

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.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG-13; for some suggestive and partying images.

Subjects:

College costs -- United States.

Universities and colleges -- United States.

Student aid -- United States.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Delbanco, Andrew, performer.

Rossi, Andrew, producer, director.