Reform of Higher Education

Contents: 1. Where Do We Need Reforms. 2. Post-Compulsory Not Post-Secondary. 3. The Balance Sheet of Democratization. 4. Subuniversity to Academic Equality. 5. Faculty Reform and Student Power. 6. University Curriculum. 7. Academic Freedom and Public Control. 8. A Theory of Mass Higher Education. 9. The Teaching of Biology. 10. The Teaching of Chemistry. 11. The Teaching of Physics. 12. The Teaching of Geology. 13. The Teaching of Mathematics. 14. Physical Education in the College.

The characterizing feature of American higher education in 1969 was the crescendo of student activism, dissent, and disruption that had started early in the 1960s and at the end of that decade approached the peak of its volume and intensity. Martin Luther King, Jr., was murdered in 1968, and, across the country, in their shock, guilt, and indignation, students protested and demonstrated on behalf of efforts to improve the lot of black students on college campuses.