Making Reform Work: The Case for Transforming American Higher Education

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Notes CHAPTER 1. PRELUDE TO REFORM 1. Kelly Field, “Education-Department Panel Will Develop a ‘National Strategy’ for Colleges,” Chronicle of Higher Education, September 30, 2005, A29. 2. Derek Bok, “A Test Colleges Don’t Need,” Washington Post, March 6, 2006, B07. 3. Peter McPherson and David Schulenburger, Improving Student Learning in Higher Education through Better Accountability and Assessment, a discussion paper for the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, http://www.scribd.com/doc/1232572/-description-tags-mcpherson. 4. Doug Lederman, “Coalescing around Concepts,” Inside Higher Education, April 7, 2006. 5. Ibid. 6. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education, Draft Report, June 12, 2006. 7. Karen W. Arenson, “Panel’s Draft Report Calls for an Overhaul of Higher Education Nationwide,” New York Times, June 27, 2006; Kelly Field, “Draft Report from Federal Panel on Higher Education Takes Aim at Academe,” Chronicle of Higher Education, June 27, 2006; Justin Pope, “Commission Draft Report Calls for Shake-up in Higher Education,” Associated Press, June 27, 2006. 8. Ralph K. M. Haurwitz, “Chairman Defends Panel’s Call for Reforms in Higher Education,” Austin American-Statesman, June 30, 2006. 9. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education, A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education, September 2006, http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/ reports/final-report.pdf. 10. Kelly Field, “Secretary’s Proposals Reassure Some Education Leaders, Disappoint Others,” Chronicle of Higher Education, September 27, 2006. 221 11. Kelly Field, “Spellings Lays Out ‘Action Plan’ for Colleges,” Chronicle of Higher Education, October 6, 2006, A1. 12. Doug Lederman, “The Sounds of Conciliation,” Inside Higher Education, September 27, 2006. 13. Sam Dillon, “Secretary Vows to Improve Results of Higher Education,” New York Times, September 27, 2006. 14. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education, A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education, September 2006, http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/ reports/final-report.pdf. 15. Paul Basken, “Colleges Emerge the Clear Winner in the Battle Over Accreditation,” Chronicle of Higher Education, February 1, 2008. CHAPTER 2. THE WINE OF OUR DISCONTENT 1. Richard H. Hersh and John Merrow, eds., Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 2, 9. 2. Ibid., 17, 13. 3. Ibid., 27. 4. Ibid., 40, 39. 5. Ibid., 78. 6. Ibid., 90. 7. Ibid., 76, 69. 8. Ibid., 69. 9. National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, Measuring Up 2000: The State-by-State Report Card for Higher Education (San Jose, Calif.: Author, 2000), 12–13. 10. Ibid., 9–10. 11. National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, Measuring Up 2002: The State-by-State Report Card for Higher Education (San Jose, Calif.: Author, 2002), 16. 12. National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, Measuring Up 2004: The National Report Card on Higher Education (San Jose, Calif.: Author, 2004), 6. 13. National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, Measuring Up 2006: The National Report Card on Higher Education (San Jose, Calif.: Author, 2006), 8. 14. Ibid., 22. 15. John Merrow, executive producer, Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk (Cleveland, Ohio: Learning Matters, Inc., 2005), PBS documentary, transcript. 16. Ibid. 17. Robert Zemsky, Gregory R. Wegner, and William F. Massy, Remaking the American University: Market-Smart and Mission-Centered (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005), 29. 18. National Commission on Educational Excellence, A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform, April 2003, http://www.ed.gov/pubs/ NatAtRisk/index.html. 19. “The College Issue,” New York Times Sunday Magazine, September 30, 2007, 25–26. 20. Ibid., 32. 21. Ibid., 34. 222 NOTES TO PAGES 15–35 22. Ibid., 43. 23. Hersh and Merrow, eds., Declining by Degrees, 9. CHAPTER 3. COMMODIFICATION AND OTHER SINS 1. “The College Issue,” New York Times Sunday Magazine, September 30, 2007, 25. 2. Audrey Williams June, “Why Presidents Are Paid So Much More than Professors,” Chronicle of Higher Education, November 16, 2007, B3. 3. Elizabeth Greene, “A Sociologist Urges Colleges to Forget Careers and Foster Intellectual Growth,” Chronicle of Higher Education, March 17, 2000, A20. 4. Richard K. Vedder, Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 2004), xv. 5. Ibid., 27. 6. Zemsky, Wegner, and Massy, Remaking the American University, 52. 7. Derek Bok, Universities in...