A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.

A college athlete returns from the dead to help his brother's basketball team win the NCAA title.

Debunking commonly held notions about the rite of passage known as the college experience, this PBS documentary follows 30 students and their teachers along the path of higher education, from admission to graduation, and exposes the disappointment, disorientation and deflation many students feel -- in both public and private schools. This revealing study also addresses the quality and readiness of America's future work force.