Making reform work the case for transforming American higher education - Zemsky, Robert (Rutgers University Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Making Reform Work is a practical narrative of ideas that begins by describing who is saying what about American higher educationùwho's angry, who's disappointed, and why. Robert Zemsky argues that improving higher education will require enlisting faculty leadership, on the one hand, and, on the other, a strategy for changing the higher education system writ large and offers three rules for successful college and university transformation: don't vilify, don't play games, and come to the table with a well-thought-out strategy rather than a sharply worded lamentation
Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1: Prelude to Reform; 2: The Wine of Our Discontent; 3: Commodification and Other Sins; 4: The Way We Are; 5: The Rain Man Cometh-Again; 6: Scandals Waiting to Happen; 7: The Four Horsemen of Academic Reform; 8: Flat-World Contrarians; 9: The Wrong-Way Web; 10: Were Learning to Matter; 11: Building Blocks; 12: Changing Strategies; Notes; Index