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Prelims.qxd 6/16/09 9:57 AM Page i Making Reform Work Prelims.qxd 6/16/09 9:57 AM Page ii Prelims.qxd 6/16/09 9:57 AM Page iii Making Reform Work The Case for Transforming American Higher Education ROBERT ZEMSKY RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London Prelims.qxd 6/16/09 9:57 AM Page iv Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zemsky, Robert, 1940– Making reform work: the case for transforming American higher education / Robert Zemsky. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–8135–4591–2 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Education, Higher—United States. 2. Educational change—United States. I. Title. II. Title: Case for transforming American higher education. LA227.4.Z45 2009 378.73—dc22 2008048062 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. Copyright © 2009 by Robert Zemsky All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854–8099. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. Visit our Web site: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu Manufactured in the United States of America Prelims.qxd 6/16/09 9:57 AM Page v For the TLA Gang— Ann, Barbara, Bill, Greg, Jim, Joan, Pam, Rick, Susan, Virginia Prelims.qxd 6/16/09 9:57 AM Page vi Prelims.qxd 6/16/09 9:57 AM Page vii Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix Prologue 1 1 Prelude to Reform 7 2 The Wine of Our Discontent 22 3 Commodification and Other Sins 38 4 The Way We Are 57 5 The Rain Man Cometh—Again 72 6 Scandals Waiting to Happen 90 7 The Four Horsemen of Academic Reform 107 8 Flat-World Contrarians 126 9 The Wrong-Way Web 143 10 Were Learning to Matter 160 11 Building Blocks 182 12 Changing Strategies 203 NOTES 221 INDEX 229 vii Prelims.qxd 6/16/09 9:57 AM Page viii Prelims.qxd 6/16/09 9:57 AM Page ix Acknowledgments This is the first book in more than thirty years that I have not written with a coauthor. It remains the case, however, that in casting and then recasting my sense of how and why American higher education needs to change I have benefited greatly from that extraordinary team that works at the core of The Learning Alliance (now in proper alphabetical order): Virginia Branch, Ann Duffield, Pamela Erney, James Galbally, Barbara Gelhard, Joan Girgus, William Massy, Richard Morgan, Susan Shaman, and Gregory Wegner. Together they were more than the “gang that shot straight”—they are friends, colleagues, critics, and, above all, fellow troopers. I am also indebted to Jim Duderstadt and David Ward who read key parts of this manuscript as did Bill Massy, Joel Smith, and Bill Tyson. Jody DeMatteo was the editor responsible for cleaning up my prose— no mean achievement given my penchant for dropping words and mis- spelling those I do include. As before, key chapters appeared first as extended essays. An early version of the chapter on globalization was first published in Luc E. Weber and James J. Duderstadt, eds., The Globalization of Higher Education, Economica (London, 2008), under the title “Has Our Reach Exceeded Our Grasp? Taking a Second Look at Higher Education as a Global Enterprise.” An early version of the chap- ter describing some of my experiences as a member of the Spellings Commission first appeared in The Chronicle Review (January 26, 2007) under the title of “The Rise and Fall of the Spellings Commission.” ix
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