So when I decided to take on this topic in the form of documentary feature, I was taken aback by the amount of negative conversations that were surrounding college the idea of college. As somebody who went to school in the 1990s when the tuition rate was one third at least of what it would be now, and was lucky enough to have parents who were able to pay for me, I have this sense that something had been lost in the conversation about college.
What I found is that the burden of student debt has grown exponentially so much since that period that it has really shifted the sort of filter through which you can see what college is today – the nostalgic idea of college as an idealized place really has suffered a huge blow because of student debt.
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