There's no shortage of ideas for reforming higher education--the National Association of Scholars has 100.

Jay Schalin:

It is getting harder to ignore the fact that American higher education is in great need of reform. Academia is lurching along unsteadily down an unsustainable and uncertain future--with rising student debt, suffocating political correctness, falling standards, and unrestrained debauchery. Change is inevitable; whether it will come from deliberate policy changes or as an inevitable collapse remains to be seen.

The problems do not come from a shortage of viable ideas to set academia on the right path, but, rather, from Ivory Tower intransigence and denial. Ideas for reform are everywhere; some are proven, some are untried, some are still up for judgment, but many can certainly improve the status quo.

In celebration of the 100th issue of Academic Questions, a publication of the National Association of Scholars (NAS), 100 academics, higher education critics, and independent scholars were asked for their suggestions on how to improve this obstinate and arrogant institution, the Ivory Tower. The results appear in the 100th issue, entitled "One Hundred Great Ideas for Higher Education." The publication of these ideas coincides with the NAS's 25th anniversary celebration. (For more information about that celebratory event in New York City on March 1-2, 2013, please visit the organization's website.)

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 26, 2013 1:06 AM
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