September-October 2012

Books Worth Reading

by Mary Taylor Huber

Financing American Higher Education in the Era of Globalization, by William Zumeta, David W. Breneman, Patrick M. Callan, and Joni E Finney. Foreword by Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., 2012. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. 288 pages. $29.95 Paper, $49.95 Cloth.

College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be, by Andrew Delbanco, 2012. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 240 pages. $24.95 Cloth, $24.95 eBook.

Navigating the reform literature on higher education often requires sharp discursive turns. The two books reviewed here come from the worlds of finance and policy, on the one hand, and liberal education, on the other.

Mary Taylor Huber is senior scholar emerita and consulting scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She has written extensively about changing faculty cultures in US higher education, focusing especially on the scholarship of teaching and learning. She is co-author, most recently, of The Advancement of Learning: Building the Teaching Commons (2005) and The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Reconsidered: Institutional Integration and Impact (2011).

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