March 12, 2004

What If the Yankees Were Run Like a Public University?

By MARK YUDOF

Mark Twain would recognize the situation. Everyone talks about the governance and financing of higher education, although, as in the case of the weather, few feel that they can do anything about it. When considering efforts to improve such aspects of colleges and universities, however, Life on the Mississippi and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn come less to mind than Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. The saga of efforts to reform higher education often seems like a Russian novel: long, tedious, and

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