…with the new year upon us it seems like a good moment to set aside some part of a Saturday to read critiques, or recommendations, or memoirs of what goes for the life and times of the contemporary university:
- The Globalization of Higher Education Edited by Luc. E. Webber and James Duderstadt
- The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities are Reshaping the World by Ben Wildavsky
- Admissions by Jean Hanff Korelitz
- Fixing College Education: A New Curriculum for the Twenty First Century by Charles Muscatine
- How University Works: Higher Education and a Low Wage Nation by Marc Bousquet
- Financing Higher Education Worldwide: Who Pays? Who Should Pay? by D. Bruce Johnston and Pamela Marcucci
- The Great American University: It’s Rise to Preeminence, it’s Indispensable National Role, and Why it Must be Protected by Jonathan R. Cole
- Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University by Gaye Tuchman
- The Last Professors: Corporate Universities and the Fate of the Humanities by Frank Donoghue
- Save the World on Your Own Time by Stanley Fish
…these are all published 2008, 09, and 2010. Grist for the mill.