Starving the Beast: The Battle to Disrupt and Reform America’s Public Universities

This documentary examines the on-going power struggle on college campuses across the nation as political and market-oriented forces push to disrupt and reform America’s public universities. The film documents a philosophical shift that seeks to reframe public higher education as a ‘value proposition’ to be borne by the beneficiary of a college degree rather than as a ‘public good’ for society. Financial winners and losers emerge in a struggle poised to profoundly change public higher education. The film focuses on dramas playing out at the University of Wisconsin, University of Virginia, University of North Carolina, Louisiana State University, University of Texas and Texas A&M.

James Carville

Self

• Steve MimsDirector

Release date

September 2, 2016

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Documentary