HUNGRY TO LEARN

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - Educational Media Reviews Online | OFFICIAL SELECTION - DOC NYC | OFFICIAL SELECTION - SXSW EDU Education & Educational Equity • Sociology • Higher Education Studies • American Studies • Economics, Labor & Poverty Studies • Ethnic Studies  Date of Completion: 2019 | Run Time: 85 minutes​​ | Language: English | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director: Geeta Gandbhir | Producers: Soledad O'Brien & Rose Arce HUNGRY TO LEARN introduces the faces behind an American crisis — college students so strapped to pay tuition that they don’t have enough money to eat or a place to live. A lack of food is just a symptom of a bigger problem, the American Dream of a college education slipping out of reach. It is the story of how colleges, once places for children of privilege, opened their doors to students of limited means but failed to provide enough financial aid to allow these new students to graduate without making painful choices. This documentary is not