Making Reform Work: The Case for Transforming American Higher Education

Contents

vii Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix Prologue 1 1 Prelude to Reform 7 2 The Wine of Our Discontent 22 3 Commodification and Other Sins 38 4 The Way We Are 57 5 The Rain Man Cometh—Again 72 6 Scandals Waiting to Happen 90 7 The Four Horsemen of Academic Reform 107 8 Flat-World Contrarians 126 9 The Wrong-Way Web 143 10 Were Learning to Matter 160 11 Building Blocks 182 12 Changing Strategies 203 NOTES 221 INDEX 229 ...