Higher Education Under Fire - Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities (Paperback, New)

More and more Americans look to higher education to guarantee their income in increasingly precarious economic times, yet they seem equally willing to attack universities regularly. While both colleges and their professors are widely distructed and criticized, Americans also point ot higher education as their most valuable and durable product in the global economy. Why - and how - is higher education in America under fire?