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5 “To give themselves financial breathing room”: Andrew Bary, “The Big Squeeze,” Barron’s, June 29, 2009.
6 an astonishing two thirds: Goldie Blumenstyk, “Debt Bomb Is Ticking Loudly on Campuses,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 10, 2009.
7 stripped of its triple-A rating: Craig Karmin, “Big Moan on Campus: Bond Downgrades,” The Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2009.
8 According to a 2009 Congressional report: Fortune, April 27, 2009.
9 “It would be reasonable”: http://www.finaid.org/savings/tuition-inflation.phtml.
10 “How much does a college education”: David Leonhardt, “The College Calculation,” The New York Times, September 24, 2009.
6. Networking Knowledge
1 “Everlastingly chained”: Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of Letters, trans. E. M. Wilkinson and L. A. Willoughby (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967), 35.
2 “are writing more than any previous generation”: Cynthia Haven, “The New Literacy: Stanford Study Finds Richness and Complexity in Students’ Writing,” Stanford Report, October 12, 2009.
7. Walls to Webs
1 “Artscience can thrive”: David Edwards, Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008), 69.
2 Only 16 percent of all students: Donoghue, The Last Professors, 89–90.
3 From the fall of 2002: “Insider Insights on the Growth Economy,” Next UP! vol. 4, issue 18, www.nextupresearch.com, May 17, 2009.
4 “free Scratch programming system”: http://www.media.mit.edu.
5 “many campuses had created centers”: Derek Bok, Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), 12.
6 From 2004 to 2007, Harvard made: AUTM U.S. Licensing Activity Survey, FY2007: A Survey Summary of Technology Licensing (and Related) Activity for U.S. Academic and Nonprofit Institutions and Technology Investment Firms, ed. Dana Bostrom, Robert Tieckelmann and Richard Kordal, Association of University Technology Managers website, www.autm.net.
8. New Skills for a Changing Workforce
1 Take as the point of departure: These are my own calculations.
2 “bring into the mix”: Michèle Lamont, How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009), 6, 10.
9. Class of 2020
1 “Whether the current system”: Karin Fischer, “America Falling: Longtime Dominance in Education Erodes,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 5, 2009.
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Barron’s: Excerpt from “The Big Squeeze” by Andrew Bary (Barron’s, June 29, 2009). Reprinted by permission of Barron’s.
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Excerpt from “America Falling: Longtime Dominance in Education Erodes” by Karin Fischer (The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 5, 2009), copyright © 2009 by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Reprinted by permission of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Harvard Crimson: Excerpt from “Faculty Meeting Lacks Usual Cookies” by Bonnie Kavoussi and Lauren Kiel (The Harvard Crimson, October 7, 2009). Reprinted by permission of The Harvard Crimson.
Nina Munk: Excerpt from “Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard” by Nina Munk (Vanity Fair, August 2009). Reprinted by permission of Nina Munk.
The New York Times: Excerpt from “Cracks in the Future” by Bob Herbert (The New York Times, Editorial Section, October 3, 2009), copyright © 2009 by The New York Times; excerpt from “The Way We Live Now: The College Calculation” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, Magazine Section, September 27, 2009), copyright © 2009 by The New York Times; and excerpt from “Hard Work, No Play” by Jennifer Williams (The New York Times, Editorial Section, October 4, 2009), copyright © 2009 by The New York Times. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of PARS International Corp., on behalf of The New York Times and protected by the copyright laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistribution or retransmission