Sundance doc asks, ‘Is college worth it?’

Published January 26, 2014 3:15pm ET



USA TODAY — PARK CITY, Utah — Is college worth it, when it comes with crushing debt?

That’s the central question posed in Ivory Tower, a new documentary playing at the Sundance Film Festival. Filmmaker Andrew Rossi, an alumnus of Yale and Harvard law school, says even his basic assumptions about college were challenged by what he discovered after assembling the 101-minute documentary.

It’s a conversation “that’s percolating all around the country with people trying to reconcile this myth of college being something they must do and the prohibitive costs. And the sense that they have to make sacrifices with their lives to put their children through school that could have devastating effects,” says Rossi, who last produced the 2011 documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times.

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