Higher education in America is the best in the world, but it is
also desperately in need of reform. Lacking effective competition
and insulated from market forces, universities have created a model
fundamentally at odds with free market principles. In a system few
outsiders comprehend, universities uniquely are run for the benefit
of faculty. Increasingly, top universities have come to resemble
closed academic societies. Admission is by way of a Ph.D. degree.
Mastery of abstract research for its own sake is the route to
promotion and advancement. Teaching is of incidental importance for
tenure - the goal of every academic. Achieving tenure assures
long-term employment without mandatory retirement plus freedom from
inhibitions on speech or actions. Faculty share governance with an
administration although faculty lack managerial skills or
responsibility for their recommendations. Politically conformist,
faculty think one way and recruit newcomers who think alike. Given
time, institutions that do not attract strong leaders or demand
accountability from faculty are destined to underperform. Cracks in
the seams of the current system are emerging in out-of-control
costs and greater competition. Lacking normal measures of
efficiency or productivity, universities' costs tend to spiral
higher - with future escalation a given. The trends are clear but
not yet ominous. Without reform, America's universities are
coasting. Can reforms take hold before a crisis is reached? Only if
strong voices demand it. Reform from universities that are
characterized by intellectual inbreeding and self-regulation cannot
be expected. Assuring future generations of a quality education is
the collective responsibility and duty of the citizenry. Based on
an inside-out view of universities, this book provides the
ammunition for such a campaign. It provides the information and
stimulus for reform for legislators, community leaders, academics
and average citizens.
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