“Starving the Beast” 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.
Featuring James Carville (BA, JD Louisiana State University), George Cohen (Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law, University of Virginia), Gene Nichol (Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina), Peter Flawn, PhD (President Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin), Larry Faulkner (President Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin), Siva Vaidhyanathan (Robertson Professor, University of Virginia) and Hunter Rawlings, PhD (President, American Association of Universities) and many more.
Produced by Bill Banowsky (Magnolia Pictures, Violet Crown Cinemas).
Directed by Steve Mims (“Incendiary: The Willingham Case”).
Opens in NY September 9 with a wide release to follow
