Paraphrasing, "the only single belief that incoming freshman have in common is the belief that there is no such thing as objective truth." I agree with him. Unfortunately, the rest of the book wasn't as good as the opening line.
Also, that was written what, twenty years ago? That was pre-Derrida.
Sorry to hear Aquinasfan say that. Perhaps his essay on higher education in Giants and Dwarfs has more to offer in the two finishing essays, "The Crisis of Liberal Education" and "The Democratization of the University." In it you'll find this nugget:
When they no longer have anything before which they can bow, their world is near its end, and all the suppressed and lawless monsters within man remerge. One might suggest that our New Left is a strange mixture of nihilism with respect to past and present and a naive faith in a future of democratic progress.