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...rise faster than the inflation rate. One year at an elite private institution today costs $23,000; by the year 2000, the price could be as high as $40,000. Recent scandals, like the misallocation of federal research funds by Stanford and some other research-minded universities, have undermined academia's credibility with the public...
...particularly in courses aimed not at those who intend to major in chemistry or engineering but at liberal-arts majors who need at least some scientific literacy. Students will be under pressure to take two foreign languages, and there will be a growing emphasis on Chinese, Japanese and Russian. Academia's international horizons will broaden in other ways. Instead of a comfy junior year abroad in Paris or Perugia, many undergraduates will opt for more adventurous and exotic locales -- Eastern Europe, say, or Southeast Asia...
...Academia's code word for the future, in the view of some, is "accountability" -- both to the students it hopes to serve and the public that pays the bills, either by taxes, tuition or gifts. In Hiatt's view, "too many higher education institutions have been run like government, and that means they have been run badly." One inevitable consequence of imitating or emulating government has been bureaucratic bloat: a self-perpetuating nomenklatura of assistant deans, development officers and other office-bound personnel. "Harvard doesn't have a financial problem, it has a management problem," contends B.U.'s Silber...
When he considered coming to Harvard, Appiahrecalls, some of his peers in academia questionedthe prospects of life in Boston...
...outlined a four-pronged plan for reform ofthe higher education system--ending allconferences, actively resisting "opportunism" atall levels of academia, exposing the limits ofknowledge of professors already tenured andconvincing American youth to question and todisobey their teachers, to "be rude in theclassroom" if necessary...