"The College Board has done the educational community a great service by publishing this excellently chosen set of essays that focuses primarily on what happens to students after they enter college. Many of us have felt for some time that too much emphasis is often placed on who gets into college rather than on success in college. McPherson and Schapiro provide a valuable guide to the contents in their introduction, and readers will have no difficulty identifying the essays of particular interest to them."—William Bowen, President Emeritus, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

“Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus have written a lucid, passionate and wide-ranging book on the state of American higher education and what they perceive as its increasing betrayal of its primary mission . . . In a series of well-structured and strongly argued chapters, the book [poses] searching and sometimes troubling questions.”—The New York Times

 

“A powerful indictment of academic careerism. The authors are not shy about making biting judgments along the way . . . Higher education may be heading for a reckoning.”—The Wall Street Journal