Join Roosevelt Institute, a progressive student policy organization and think-tank, at the Roosevelt Network's Chicago office for a night of film, food, and conversation about the privatization of higher education.
We see evidence of this crisis in huge cuts in funding for public schools, skyrocketing costs of attendance at both private and public schools, and increases in student debt burdens.
"Starving the Beast is a film which 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."
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
6pm - 9:30pm
125 South Clark Street, Chicago IL. Floor 17
