Chilly Climate for Deep Thought

doi:10.1126/science.286.5441.897b

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"What reveals the limitations of current practices in higher education is the evidently superior performance of small, liberal arts colleges in producing the faculties of our research universities. [T]he large research university does not succeed to the same degree at reproducing the culture of inquiry that leads to careers in scholarship."

--Michigan State University political scientist W. B. Allen, former director of the Council of Higher Education for Virginia, on "The Trouble in Higher Education," a 20 October talk at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.