In chapter 9 it is discussed that the quality of undergraduate education declined and the price of tuition increased dramatically, leaving people dumbfounded, wondering why. Higher education is compared to the titanic sinking, and Arthur Levine, president of Teachers College at Columbia University, starts off the chapter with a metaphor:
“All in all, our actions [in higher education] are akin to a boat hitting an iceberg and the captain announcing that his highest priority, as the boat sinks, is saving the crew. The next priority is avoiding any inconvenience by continuing all activities-the midnight buffet, the bingo game, the shuffleboard tournament. The third priority is repairing the boat. And the fourth and final one, should time permit, is saving the passengers.”
In the 1990’s the competition for research prestige, money and undergraduate enrollment was cutthroat. The author suggests that higher education can be compared to corporate America.
The ideas above were the only things in chapter 9 that interested me. Through out the chapter I felt the author was repetitive, saying the same thing that was said in the last chapter. Teach more and research less.
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