The Uncertain Future of American Public Higher Education: Student-Centered Strategies for Sustainabi

1. Introduction

2.Tuition Crisis: The Cost and Financing of Public Higher Education

3. Seat Time Academic Credit: What Does it Really Measure?

4. Tenure: Lifetime Employment in a Fast Changing World

5. Campuses: Overvalued, Underused, and Very Costly

6. Lectures, Textbooks, Academic Calendar, and Administration: An Agenda for Change

7. Duplication of Programs: Where Do We Draw the Line?

8. Intercollegiate Sports: Challenges to the Academic Mission?

9. Presidential Selection, Salaries, and Moral Leadership

10. Student Demographics: The Coming Changes and Challenges for Higher Education

12. Accreditation: How it Works and Is it Working?

13. Attacking the Problems: Student-Centered Strategies for Governors, Governing Boards, and University Presidents

14. Epilogue: Theoretical Perspectives on Change