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JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): ..... A new television documentary tackles the growing worries and criticism over college costs and student debt.
Jeffrey Brown taped this conversation last week.
JEFFREY BROWN (NewsHour): The American higher education system has long been regarded as a crowning achievement. But these days, the focus has been more on its problems, rising tuition bills that stoke ballooning debt, too many students who never graduate, misplaced and overly lavish expenditures on facilities and housing and much more.
A new documentary, “Ivory Tower,” looks at a range of such issues. It opens in many U.S. cities this month.
Here’s a short clip that features one of its main themes.
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ANDREW ROSSI, Director, “Ivory Tower”: But we also see a shift in the ’70s, when conservative governors like Ronald Reagan suggested that the state shouldn’t be subsidizing intellectual curiosity. And that is really the world we live in now.
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ANDREW ROSSI: Well, we really emphasize that metrics such as completion rates at schools, average amounts of student debt and employability at a particular institution once someone graduates should be the priority in choosing a school, and not, again, which university has the more popular football team or the more lush student center.
I think, if we can reorient to those metrics, many people might be able to avoid going into an amount of debt that is crushing.
Ronald Reagan, typical ignorant Republicanism. Intellectual curiosity leads to the discoveries that drive technology and innovation that drives an expanding economy.
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