Content written by Goldie Blumenstyk and published by The Chronicle of Higher Education
MBA News Digest Comment: None.
Extracted Content: The film should bother people, even though it’s not a scathing critique of the academy. In fact, one of the things I admire about it is the nuanced way it uses the stories of five students to describe the contours of the changing higher-education landscape. While it certainly doesn’t flinch at problems like student debt and poor completion rates, the film shows that there are institutions exploring new approaches to teaching (a competency-based program at Southern New Hampshire University), new models of advising (the data-driven model at Georgia State University); and new approaches to college access (among them Year Up’s mixing of apprenticeship with the first year of college and Arizona State University’s partnership with Starbucks).