Shipyards in the Desert

Higher education is facing pressures which prohibit valuable and illuminating research: virtually no growth in the higher-education enterprise; a lack of societal enthusiasm for higher education; a sense of competition among institutions for the public and private support and the pool of talented students that remain; and a wariness and a weariness of the protracted turf war between administration and faculty and within each constituency on individual campuses. Until these pressures are eased, improvements in higher-education research will be minimal.