<p>Karabel’s book is excellent. Here are a couple of other bits of light reading if you are so inclined.</p>
<p>The second chapter of David Kirp’s Shakespeare, Einstein and the Bottom Line-The Marketing of Higher Education addresses Cue’s question of how Chicago got the joke and what they did about it.</p>
<p>William Bowen, the former president of a certain New Jersey based community college and a respected advocate of affirmative action, discusses at some length and praises Chicago’s approach to its athletic program in Reclaiming the Game-College Sports and Educational Values.</p>
<p>As an aside, having among other things watched him armtwist potential employers for Metcalf Internships, I can testify Dean Boyer is also most emphatically focused on placing students in jobs.</p>