November's Ossining Doc&Discussion Series Screening: "Ivory Tower" at the Ossining Public Library's Budarz Theatre

From the halls of Harvard, to public colleges in financial crisis, to Silicon Valley, filmmaker Andrew Rossi assembles an urgent portrait of a great American institution at the breaking point. Through interviews profiled at several universities 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 they 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. A documentary that questions the cost -- and value -- of higher education in the United States.

Panelists include: Ossining High School’s own Assistant Principal,Guidance Department, Lorraine Longing; SUNY New Paltz’s Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Stephen Pampinella; and New York Public Interest Group’s Higher Education Campaign Organizer, Tiffany Brown.

Always Free and Open to the Public

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