What Isn't Broken in American Higher Education?

By Bill Destler. Some day, I am going to write a book in which I will discuss the laws that govern academia in America, and one of them will be: "U.S. higher education is widely regarded as the best in the world, which is why so many people want to change it." There is real truth in this statement. Even though hundreds of thousands of international students come to the U.S. each year to pursue college degrees here, often at enormous personal sacrifice, American higher education is increasingly under attack by politicians and the media. More...