ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author offers specific proposals for the reform of higher education in America. In order to introduce some system into these recommendations, he begins with the point at which a student enters the world of higher education and then proceeds stage by stage through the successive levels at which reforms might be called for. The author's first proposal is to sever the institutional connections between professional schools and their home universities. It is already utopian to imagine a thoroughgoing reform of higher education; any proposal which also requires the complete transformation of the system of social rewards and distribution of wealth in America is clearly the other side of Utopia. The legal and economic complications of this proposal for cutting loose the professional schools are obviously very great. In some private universities, the professional schools have separate endowments, and the arrangements would not be impossibly difficult.
