May 26, 2006

Ways to Compare Apples and Oranges in American Higher Education

To the Editor:

Alan Contreras is certainly correct that truth in labeling is a highly desirable thing ("Academic vs. Nonacademic: a Call for Truth in Labeling," The Chronicle Review, April 21). If you can't trust the categories, what can you trust? It's also true that nonacademic or professional education can be as valuable as academic education. ... But the line between academic and non-academic is not so easily drawn.

For example, the U.S. Naval Academy is a trade school: Its

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