Here’s a few of the things we’ve been reading along the way…
Books
The Making of a College (Hampshire College)
Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
The Students of Deep Springs College
Shop Class as Soul Craft by Matthew Crawford
A History of American Higher Education
History of Higher Education in Western Pennsylvania
What Are People For? by Wendell Berry
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Pedagogy of Freedom by Paulo Freire
We Make the Road by Walking by Freire, Horton, and Gaventa
Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Arum and Roksa
Higher Education? by Hacker and Dreifus
Generation Debt by Anya Kamenetz
Lessons Learned Reflections of a University President by William Bowen
Crisis on Campus by Mark C. Taylor
The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal by Palmer, Zajonc, and Scribner
The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower by Sloan and Fisher
Not for Profit by Martha Nussbaum
Higher Education and the American Dream by Marvin Lazerson
Twentieth Century Education: Elite to Mass to Universal by Martin Trow
The Lost Soul of Higher Education by Ellen Schreker
Our Underachieving Colleges by Derek Bok
Articles
Essay by Caroline Bird, Journalist (1975)
Tuition Inflation Statistics (FinAid.org, 2007)
For Most People, College is Waste of Time (WSJ Article, 2008)
Trends in College Pricing (Collegeboard, 2008)
In the Basement of the Ivory Tower (The Atlantic, June 2008)
Most Expensive Colleges for 2009-2010 (CampusGrotto.com, 2009)
The True Cause of College Tuition Inflation? (NTY Freakonomics Blog, 2009)
The College Calculation (NYT, 9/27/09)
Learning by Degrees (The New Yorker 6/7/2010)
Share of Recreation Spending Increasing (NYT 7/8/10)
Why Did 17 Million Students Go To College? (The Chronicle 10/20/2010)
Bad Education (N+1, 4/25/2011)
The University Has No Clothes (NYT Magazine 5/1/2011)
Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education (5/4/2011)
Publications/Websites
The Chronicle of Higher Education
NEA Higher Education Publications
The New Public University by John Brewer
A New Vision of the the Public University
Organizations
Center for College Affordability and Productivity
Lumina Foundation for Education
Northeast Conference on College Cost Accounting
The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education