In case anybody wishes to chime in, the Washington Post is hosting a blogtalk with Harry Lewis, author of Excellence without a Soul, on Monday at 2 PM. Here’s a link.

A quote from Lewis: “The great universities are respected and certainly prized in America, but the public regards with increasing skepticism the values they represent and their failure sometimes to represent any values at all. As their cost zooms towards $50,000 per year and their intellectual content becomes more estranged from anything comprehensible to ordinary citizens, they will be regarded as sources of economic security for their graduates but not of intellectual or personal inspiration.”