I. The Nation-State and the Internationalization of the Enterprise of Learning

Introduction

1. Allegiances: The Nation-State and the World of Learning
2. Current Contradictions: Univeralism versus Nationalism in the University World
Annex: Global Perspective in Education

II. Heritage versus Equality versus Merit

Introduction

3. Accumulated Heritage Faces Modern Imperatives
4. "Equality": Rising Controversies over What It Means
5. Meritocratic Higher Education in a World of Universal-Access Higher Education

III. Differentiation versus Homogenization of Function among Institutions of Higher Education

Introduction

6. A Twenty-first-Century Convergence Model of Higher Education--both Universal Access and Advancement of Merit
7. The Research and Advanced Training Component within the Convergence Model
8. The California Master Plan for Higher Education of 1960: An Ex Ante View
Annex: A Digest of the California Master Plan

IV. Knowledge Ethics and the New Academic Culture

Introduction

9. The Academic Ethic and the Professoriate: A "Disintegrating Profession"?
10. Academic Citizenship in Decline

V. Missions and Purposes: The Many Choices

Introduction
Annex: Alternative Approaches to Higher Education

11. Mission of the University Reesxamined
12. The Purposes of Higher Education in the United States
Annex: Other Statements of Purposes of Higher Education

VI. Competing Visions of the Future

Introduction

13. Ice Age or New Horizons--"The Wheel of Education"
14. Higher Education and External History Cannot Escape Each Other

Epilogue: Looking Backward to Look Forward

Index