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The Great American University: Its Rise to Prominence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected, by Jonathan R. Cole, PublicAffairs, 616 pages, $35
Higher Education: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids, by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, Henry Holt and Company, 288 pages, $26
More than nine Americans in 10 say that universities are among the nation's "most valuable resources," but they hold different and sometimes conflicting ideas about what universities are valuable for. Universities are expected to generate ideas and generate jobs, to prepare the next generation of leaders and open their doors to the great mass of high school graduates, to speak truth to power and serve as resources for those in power.
Needless to say, higher education hasn't figured out how to do all these things at once, and its failings have been grist for a cottage industry of sharp-eyed critics. Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus' Higher Education is the latest addition to this bookshelf of broadsides, the question mark in the title signaling its viewpoint. In sharp contrast, Jonathan Cole's The Great American University is a 616-page paean to elite research universities. Each book offers something of value but goes too far: American universities are neither the frauds that Higher Education asserts nor as impressive as The Great American University imagines.
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