A National Dialogue: The Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education

I highly recommend to read the draft from this commission:

They recommend 1) more science and math 2) more foreign students 3) more open-source and open access content 4) more meritocracy and less reputation driven universities 5) more citizen participation 6) more quality for less costs.

"In a higher-education system as diverse and complex as ours, it is no surprise that knowledgeable individuals can and do differ over certain matters. Nevertheless, there has been remarkable consensus among our members..."

I recommend this report, and look at page 23: "• The Commission encourages the creation of incentives to promote the
development of open-source and open-content projects at universities and
colleges across the United States, enabling the open sharing of educational
materials from a variety of institutions, disciplines, and educational perspectives.
Such a portal could stimulate innovation, and serve as the leading resource for
teaching and learning. New initiatives such as OpenCourseWare, the Open
Learning Initiative, the Sakai Project, and the Google Book project hold out the
potential of providing universal access both to general knowledge and to higher
education." NICE!