American Higher Education Transformed, 1940–2005

Wilson Smith is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Davis. Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and a professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America, winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians; New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time; Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States; and Community and Social Change in America; all published by Johns Hopkins.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I. The TerrainThe Harvard Reprt on General EducationScienceFaith and ModernityThe Newman ReportThe HumanitiesThe MultiversityConnectingPrimacy of American Higher EducationHorizonsPart II. Expanding and ReshapingTruman Commission ReportThe Challenge of ExpansionThe Origin of Admissions TestingCalifornia's Master PlanCommunity CollegesDiversification of Higher Education: WomenDiversification of Higher Education: Latino AmericansLifelong LearningThe Soul of the UniversityPart III. Liberal ArtsRetrospect and ProspectThe Humanities in WartimesRevising the CurriculaThe Mind of the UniversityTeaching the ConnectionThe Arts and Sciences in DeclinePart IV. Graduate StudiesGraduate Surveys and ProspectsImporving the Status of Acadmeic WomenConsequences of DemocratizationRethinking the Ph.D.Future FacultyPart V. Disciplines and InterdisciplinarityThe Work of DisciplinesArea StudiesBlack StudiesWomen's StudiesInterdisciplinarityPart VI. Academic ProfessionThe Intellectual MigrationAt Work in the AcademyWorking in Univerisities/Working in BusinessTeachers as Labor and ManagementProtocols and EthicsPart VII. Conflicts on and Beyond CampusWhat Should the University Do?Campus Free SpeechA Learning CommunityThe Franklin AffairInquiriesAcademic Commitment in Crisis TimePart VIII. Government, Foundations, CorporationsGovernmentFoundationsCorporationsPart IX. The Coutrs and Equal Educational OpportunityToward Racial EqualityAffirmative ActionAffirmative Action AttackedPart X. Academic FreedomSetting the StandardCoices of the Supreme CourtVoices from ProfessorsPart XI. Rights of StudentsDirected by the Court and the CongressPart XII. Academic AdministrationsManagementPresidents Consider Their JobsRuth Simmons Comes to Smith CollegeGreatness Retold

A thoughtfully produced, thought-provoking resource that will be of interest to anyone concerned with policy and administration in American higher education. Book News 2008 Wilson Smith and Thomas Bender offer a judicious selection of documents that highlight important transitions, ideas, and episodes from the last six decades of higher learning in the United States. Harvard Educational Review 2008 Wilson Smith and Thomas Bender's documentary history will undoubtedly serve as an extremely valuable enchiridion of a transformative period in American higher education. -- Benjamin A. Johnson and Bruce A. Kimball Journal of Higher Education 2011