The Price of Excellence is an account of what went wrong with the great experiment to educate America. Though the story bears a negative charge, it also conveys hopeful messages of faith in the future of higher education. It offers an objective historical analysis of the rise and fall of higher education by a researcher trained in the 1980s, and by a senior scholar who was both participant in creating the golden age of American higher education and a victim of its dissolution.
- ISBN10 0761827331
- ISBN13 9780761827337
- Publish Date 19 February 2004 (first published 1 December 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of America
- Format Paperback
- Pages 252
- Language English