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Buku 'Excellence without a Soul: How a Great Universty Forgot Education" Harvard Univ. Press, 2006) dihasilkan oleh Profesor Harry Lewis. Prof Harry pernah menjadi Dekan Kolej Harvard selama 8 tahun dan Profesor selama 32 tahun.
Buku ini menjelaskan bahawa penyelidikkan dibawah arah negara dan industri tidak pedulikan kesan-kesan negatif kepada masyarakat. Profesor-profesor sibuk mengejar dana penyelidikkan dan lupa tugas pendidikan dan pengajaran.
Rektor/presiden/Naib Canselor sibuk dengan usaha menambah kekuatan kewangan universiti untuk mendapat ranking tinggi. Isu-isu pelajar pelajar bertambah buruk.
Terdapat pensyarah dan profesor yang mempunyai akhlak yang buruk, mementingkan diri sendiri, memandang rendah pada orang lain yang tidak menyanjung mereka dan sikap membenci nilai-nilai agama dan etika. Terdapat juga hasad dengki, polticking dan mengejar pangkat dengan cara tidak beretika.
Kata seorang ahli akademik di Kampus Kesihatan USM, "bahangnya telah menjangkau diuniversiti-universiti tempatan di Malaysia."
Diskripsi Buku seperti yang terdapat di lama Amazon.com
America's great research universities are the envy of
the world—and none more so than Harvard.
Never before has the
competition for excellence been fiercer. But while striving to be
unsurpassed in the quality of its faculty and students, Universities
have forgotten that the fundamental purpose of undergraduate education
is to turn young people into adults who will take responsibility for
society.
In Excellence Without a Soul, Harry Lewis, a Harvard
professor for more than thirty years and Dean of Harvard College for
eight, draws from his experience to explain how our great universities
have abandoned their mission. Harvard is unique; it is the richest,
oldest, most powerful university in America, and so it has set many
standards, for better or worse.
Lewis evaluates the failures of this
grand institution—from the hot button issue of grade inflation to the
recent controversy over Harvard's handling of date rape cases—and makes
an impassioned argument for change. The loss of purpose in America's
great colleges is not inconsequential. Harvard, Yale, Stanford—these
places drive American education, on which so much of our future
depends. It is time to ask whether they are doing the job we want them
to do.
