There were 13 million university students in 1960. In 2015, their ranks had swollen to nearly 200 million. Universities are operating in the world's most competitive knowledge economy and they are waging a ferocious battle to attract the brightest minds from around the globe. Higher Education delves into the key, decision-making seats where money and politics intermingle, and reveals the deep cultural divide between a lucrative Anglo-Saxon model of...

"As the number of students on the autism spectrum attending college steadily climbs, schools and students alike are trying to figure out how to manage the unique challenges experienced by this community. Getting accepted is often easy enough, but once on campus, navigating college can be challenging in many ways, often leaving students to figure it out as they go along. Five students on the autism spectrum -- Guillermo, Jasmine, Caroline, Jonathan,...

Executive produced by news legend Dan Rather, FAIL STATE investigates the dark side of American higher education, chronicling the decades of policy decisions in Washington, D.C. that have given rise to a powerful and highly-predatory for-profit college industry. With echoes of the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the film lays bare how for-profit colleges exploit millions of low-income and minority students, leaving them with worthless degrees and drowning...

Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.

This documentary, set on four different college campuses, examines both the promise and the peril in higher education today.

"Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is famous for his statement that "God is dead" and his provocative account of Master and Slave moralities-and for the fact that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis claimed that Nietzsche was one of their great inspirations. In this two hour and forty-five minute long documentary containing over 400 images, Professor Stephen Hicks asks and answers the following questions: What key elements of Hitler and the National Socialists'...

Looks at the student debt crisis in the United States that has millions of people struggling financially.

This program looks at the financial aspects of a college eduction. It covers reports and interviews on the costs of different types of colleges, what to look for in a tax-free 529 savings plan, new developments in student loads, how much to save based on child's age, the in-s-and-outs of applying for financial aid--Publisher's description.

Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure. Jude Fawley is a stonemason with a passion for learning. After a brief but unhappy marriage to the daughter of a local pig farmer, he moves to Christminster to be closer to his beloved scholars. There, he meets and falls totally in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a thoroughly modern young woman, whose wit and beauty captivate him. When they join in an illicit union that flouts society's conventions, fate takes...