Kenneth Lasson: Trembling in the Ivory Tower; Bancroft Press; 2003; 196 pp. If one listens to spokesmen for the higher-education establishment, America’s colleges and universities are the envy of the world, … Continue reading “Trembling in the Ivory Tower”
In recent years, there have been quite a few books on the ways in which innovation will change higher education. Richard DeMillo’s Abelard to Apple is, I think, the most intriguing one … Continue reading “Peering into the Crystal Ball”
In my review of Higher Education? by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, I suggested that the similarities between the thinking of that book’s politically left authors and my own (libertarians are often but misleadingly … Continue reading “Three Cheers for Half a Book!”
Does “political correctness” predominate in American higher education? If so, is that a bad thing? And if it’s a bad thing, can anything be done about it? A new collection … Continue reading “Are We Stuck with the Politically Correct University?”
Alan Kors is a highly-regarded professor of history who has taught at the University of Pennsylvania for decades. Kors was the recipient of the Pope Center’s Caldwell Prize for academic … Continue reading “When the Academy Was Free”
Does education matter? Alison Wolf addresses the question in her new book, “Does Education Matter: Myths about Education and Economic Growth.” The author, who holds the Sir Roy Griffiths professorship … Continue reading “Does Education Matter?”
People usually wait until they have retired to write books that air a good deal of dirty laundry. Maybe it’s a mark in favor of tenure that a professor who … Continue reading “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education”
Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk Edited by Richard H. Hersh and John Merrow Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 244 pages, $24.95 Books critical of higher education in America used to … Continue reading “Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk”
Independent Institute and Cambridge University Press, 2005, 279 pp., $28.99 American colleges and universities are hothouses of hypocrisy and the principal exhibit is the fact that while their spokesmen talk … Continue reading “Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus”
Richard Vedder: Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much; American Enterprise Institute; 2004; 232 pp.; $25 It is incontestably true the cost of going to college has been … Continue reading “Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much”
