Anthony Grafton résume les livres suivants:

The Faculty Lounges: And Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get The College Education You Paid For par Naomi Schaefer Riley

The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters par Benjamin Ginsberg

The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton par Jerome Karabel

Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class par Christopher Newfield

Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America’s Public Universities par William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos, and Michael S. McPherson

Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses par Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa

Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life par Anthony T. Kronman

Saving State U: Why We Must Fix Public Higher Education par Nancy Folbre

Extrait :

“Students reported spending twelve hours a week, on average, studying—down from twenty-five hours per week in 1961 and twenty in 1981. Half the students in the sample had not taken a course that required more than twenty pages of writing in the previous semester, while a third had not even taken a course that required as much as forty pages a week of reading.

Even at the elite University of California, students report that on average they spend “twelve hours [a week] socializing with friends, eleven hours using computers for fun, six hours watching television, six hours exercising, five hours on hobbies”—and thirteen hours a week studying.”