Lesson Plan: An Agenda for Change in American Higher Education

Why and how American colleges and universities need to change in order to meet the nation's pressing needs

American higher education faces some serious problems—but they are not the ones most people think. In this brief and accessible book, two leading experts show that many so-called crises—from the idea that typical students are drowning in debt to the belief that tuition increases are being driven by administrative bloat—are exaggerated or simply false. At the same time, many…