Our contentious universities: a personal history

Beginnings Constant change and beyond The sixties : disruption and its causes Student learning and the culture wars New departures A different future : change and the 1990s Toward the present moment and its protests

"From his days at Princeton University as a member of the faculty, dean, and provost, and his time as a faculty member and president at Harvard University, Neil L. Rudenstine has been uniquely positioned to observe the changes that have occurred in higher education over the past few decades. This book describes the current state of American higher education. It is partly a memoir, and partly a personal history of Neil L. Rudenstine. The current volume considers whether the substantial nature and scale of university changes during the past half-century or more indicate that we have entered a new era when the probability of frequent protest and disruption is more likely than before"