Redefining Higher Education: How Self-Direction Can Save Colleges - Tapa dura

-[This] book is a call for higher standards and resistance to the culture of student entitlement, but it is very far from a standard-issue diatribe against the excesses of campus liberalism. . . . Redefining Higher Education is based on sharp observation. Fein briskly summarizes more familiar controversies and takes us on to new territory. He commands a dragon's hoard of material but spends it freely. He lives up to his own recommendation by giving us an exemplification of what a professional academic committed to the canons of personal responsibility looks like.- --Peter Wood, president, National Association of Scholars "[This] book is a call for higher standards and resistance to the culture of student entitlement, but it is very far from a standard-issue diatribe against the excesses of campus liberalism. . . . Redefining Higher Education is based on sharp observation. Fein briskly summarizes more familiar controversies and takes us on to new territory. He commands a dragon's hoard of material but spends it freely. He lives up to his own recommendation by giving us an exemplification of what a professional academic committed to the canons of personal responsibility looks like." --Peter Wood, president, National Association of Scholars "[This] book is a call for higher standards and resistance to the culture of student entitlement, but it is very far from a standard-issue diatribe against the excesses of campus liberalism. . . . Redefining Higher Education is based on sharp observation. Fein briskly summarizes more familiar controversies and takes us on to new territory. He commands a dragon's hoard of material but spends it freely. He lives up to his own recommendation by giving us an exemplification of what a professional academic committed to the canons of personal responsibility looks like." --Peter Wood, president, National Association of Scholars