The current higher education landscape presents as many challenges as it does opportunities, which can make it daunting to decide where to direct reform efforts. In this chapter and the one that follows, I use the context and arguments of previous chapters to begin building an action plan. First, I...

Not too long ago, I received a quotation via email from a colleague at one of the other UC schools that read: “Nothing we have said about the teacher's primary responsibility for defining the intellectual purpose of the university should obscure the fact that American teachers in the recent past have shamelessly abdicated this responsibility.