New Research Criticizes the Quality of Undergraduate Learning

In a recent New York Times article, "Your So-Called Education," authors Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa question the management and resulting quality of higher education in the United States.  They write, "Too many institutions, for instance, rely primarily on student course evaluations to assess teaching.  This creates perverse incentives for professors to demand little and give out good grades."  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/opinion/15arum.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=your%20so-called%20education&st=cse
Arum and Roksa are also the authors of the book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, which is in the Bankier Library collection.
http://library.brookdalecc.edu/record=b1134609~S0