Our Higher Calling

Holden Thorp is editor-in-chief for the Science family of journals. Buck Goldstein is professor emeritus and University Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Together, they are the authors of Engines of Innovation, now in its second edition.

Compelling.... Thorp and Goldstein outline a blueprint for trustees, presidents, faculty and students to follow to rebuild higher education for a new century." - Jeffrey J. Selingo, Washington Post "What can higher education do to reverse public and political skepticism about it--even hostility toward it? More than anything, say Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein, American higher education must work to restore the compact that has long underpinned it--a tacit agreement in which academe produces knowledge and well-educated citizens in exchange for stable public investment and the autonomy to get on with its job." - The Chronicle of Higher Education "A challenging but arguably hopeful outlook on issues facing higher education in the United States. Given its rationale and recommendations, the book reads much like a strategic plan for higher education leaders." - College and University