A Brief Summary Of Starving The Beast

Starving the Beast was a very eye opening event. Before attending the event, I had thought the event was about a mystical fantasy movie. However, the events in the movie were very real and very informative. Starving the beast was about higher education, tenure professor, people who hold higher education positions and the struggle for power in all the college campuses across the nation. Some examples from the movie, as more colored student or students who do not identify with white are attending higher education. State funding for higher education are decreasing dramatically as students’ school debt are increasing.
The political power struggle for higher education is ongoing and state funding for universities are decreasing. Something I heard from the movie was that the government had designed the system to fail. Instead of being held responsible for students’ education they are shifting the responsibility onto the students. This was very eye opening as they were saying that the education system was designed to just put students into the workforce like some
Honestly, I have no interest in whatever that was happening before until right now. It is telling me that these laws or policies are affecting me and that I do need to start getting involved. A man from the documentary stated that public education was for people who were not able to afford to get private education. If the government knows (I think they do) that public education are for people who are not financially well off, why are they decreasing state funding and increasing public education tuition and placing students into accumulating more debt. If public higher education are funded by taxpayers dollars, why is the government cutting down the funding. I am pretty sure about half of the student who attend college work and as taxpayer I think students have the right to see where their money are going and it should