“The 18 months that I spent on Margaret Spellings’ Commission on the Future of Higher Education left me convinced that American higher education must undergo dramatic change if it is to keep thriving. The commission got that part right, even if – as I believe and argue in my new book, Making Reform Work: The Case for Transforming American Higher Education (Rutgers University Press) – many of its preconceptions and strategies were deeply flawed. The book is my attempt to write the report that the Spellings Commission should have. I try to make sense of all of the public criticism and debate that is now swirling about higher education …” (more)
[Robert Zemsky, Inside Higher Ed, 4 September]