The Carnegie Foundation report says that many colleges have tried to be "all things to all people". In doing so, they have (1) catered (2) a narrow-minded careerism while failing to (3) a global vision among their students. The current crisis, it (4) , does not derive (5) a legitimate desire to put learning (6) productive ends. The problem is that in too many academic fields, the work has no context; skills, (7) being means, have become ends. Students are (8) a variety of (9) and allowed to (10) their way to a degree. (11) , driven by careerism, "the nation’s colleges and universities are more successful in providing credentials than in providing a quality education for their students". The report concludes that the special challenge confronting the undergraduate college is one of shaping an "integrated core" of common learning. Such a core would introduce students "to (12) knowledge, to connections across the disciplines, and in the end, to (13) of knowledge to life beyond the campus".
Although the key to a good college is a high-quality (14) , the Carnegie study found that most colleges do very little to (15) good teaching. In fact, they do much to undermine it. As one professor observed: "Teaching is important, we are told, and yet faculty know that research and publication (16) most." Not surprisingly, over the last twenty years colleges and universities have (17) to graduate half of their four-year degree candidates. Faculty members who (18) themselves to teaching soon discover that they will not be granted tenure, promotion, or (19) salary increases. Yet 70 percent of all faculty say their interests lie more in teaching than in research. Additionally, a frequent complaint among young scholars is that "there is pressure to publish," although there is (20) no interest among administrators or colleagues in the content of the publications.