Prologue: Central Issues and Converging
Solutions
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
