Table of Contents

Foreword—Tom Wolfe * Introduction—Richard H. Hersh & John Merrow * Extra, Extra, Don't Read All about It—Gene I. Maeroff * Degrees of Indifference? Where the Public Stands on Higher Education—Deborah Wadsworth * College Admissions: A Substitute for Quality?—James Fallows * Caveat Lector: Unexamined Assumptions about Quality in Higher Education—Jay Mathews * Liberal Education: Slip-Sliding Away?—Carol G. Schneider * Six Challenges to the American University—Vartan Gregorian * Beyond Markets and Individuals: A Focus on Educational Goals—Howard Gardner * This Little Student Went to Market—David L. Kirp * How Undergraduate Education Became College Lite (A Personal Apology)—Murray Sperber * College Sports: America's New Peculiar Institution—Frank Deford * Worlds Apart: Disconnects between Students and Their Colleges—Arthur Levine * Leaving the Newcomers Behind—Roberto Suro & Richard Fry * Talking the Talk: Rhetoric & Reality for Students of Color—Heather D. Washington * It's Only a Port of Call: Reflections on the State of Higher Education—Julie Johnson Kidd * The Curriculum and College Life: Confronting Unfulfilled Promises—Leon Botstein * Afterword—Richard H. Hersh * Afterword—John Merrow