Acknowledgments Introduction: Documents and Higher Education''s Heritage 1. Colleges in the Colonial Era 1.1. Town and Gown: Anthony Wood''s ""Riot at Oxford"" 1.2. A College Charter in the Colonial Era: The College of Rhode Island (1764) 1.3. A College''s Laws and Code of Conduct (1783) 1.

4. Finances of the Colonial Colleges 2. Creating the ""American Way"" in Higher Education: College Building, 1785 to 1860 2.1. A Charter for a New State University: The University of GeorgiaCharter (1785) 2.2. Founding State Universities: The Great Bicentennial Debate, 1785 to1985 2.3.

Philanthropy and Student Financial Aid: The American Education Society (1815) 2.4. Higher Education for Women: Charter for Mount-Holyoke Female Seminary (1836) 2.5. College Presidents and Their Students: Thomas R. Dew''s Address before the Students of the College of William and Mary (1836) 3. Diversity and Adversity: Resilience in American Higher Education, 1860 to 1890 3.1.

Federal Land Grant Legislation: The Morrill Act of 1862 3.2. Student Memoir: Lyman C. Bagg''s Four Years at Yale (1871) 3.3. Federal Land Grant Legislation: The Second Morrill Act of 1890 3.4. Stephen J.

Wright on the Historical Background and Future Prospects of Black Colleges and Universities (1987) 3.5. College Admissions and Student Consumerism: ""The Oldest and Cheapest College in the South"" (1892) 4. Captains of Industry and Erudition: University Builders, 1880 to 1910 4.1. Edwin Slosson on Great American Universities in 1910 4.2. Reforming Medical Education: Abraham Flexner''s 1910 Report for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 4.

3. A College Professor''s Wife (1905) 4.4. Jesse Brundage Sears''s Report on Endowed Universities (1922) 5. Alma Mater: America Goes to College, 1890 to 1920 5.1. Student Memoir: Robert Benchley''s ""What College Did to Me"" (1927) 5.2.

The Popular Press and Women''s Colleges: Smith College in 1897 5.3. Student Memoir: James Thurber''s ""University Days"" (1933) 5.4. Real Estate Promotion and Colleges: ""A College among the Orange Groves"" (1920) 5.5. College Sports Reform: Howard J. Savage''s 1929 Report for the CarnegieFoundation for the Advancement of Teaching 6.

Success and Excess: Expansion and Reforms in Higher Education, 1920 to 1945 6.1. Hollywood and Higher Education: The Marx Brothers Go to College (1932) 6.2. Student Memoir: John Kenneth Galbraith on Graduate School at Berkeley in the 1930s (1968) 6.3. Federal Student Financial Aid: The GI Bill of 1944 6.4.

The Federal Government and Sponsored Research: Vannevar Bush''s 1945 Report, Science: The Endless Frontier 6.5. Higher Education for American Democracy: The 1947 Truman Commission Report 7. Gilt by Association: Higher Education''s ""Golden Age,"" 1945 to 1970 7.1. Coeducation and Student Life: Rules and Regulations for Women in Higher Education in 1955Â-56 7.2. The 1960 California Master Plan for Postsecondary Education 7.

3. Racial Desegregation at State Universities: Commemorative Plaque at the University of Mississippi 7.4. Student Memoir: Jackie Jensen as the ""Student-Athlete"" following World War II (1970) 7.5. Campus Unrest and Student Protest: Mario Savio''s ""Put Your Bodies upon the Gears"" Speech at Sproul Plaza, University of California, Berkeley (1964) 7.6. Student Memoir: Steven Kelman on Political Activism at Harvard from1966 to 1970 (1982) 8.

Coming of Age in America: Higher Education as a Troubled Giant, 1970 to 2000 8.1. The Campus Condition: The 1971 Newman Report on Higher Education 8.2. Federal Student Financial Aid: Basic Educational Opportunity Grants Program (Pell Grants) from the 1972 Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965 8.3. Missions and Functions of Community Colleges: The 1981 Report of the California Postsecondary Education Commission 8.4.

The Changing Profile of College Students in the 1980s 8.5. Student Memoir: Rosa Maria Pegueros, ""Todos Vuelven: From Potrero Hill to UCLA"" (1995) 8.6. College Sports Reform: The 1991 Knight Commission Report 9. A New Life Begins? Reconfiguring Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century 9.1. College Spending in a Turbulent Decade: Findings from the Delta Cost Project, 2000Â-2010 9.

2. Curriculum and the Culture of a Campus: A Clash between Students and the President at the University of Chicago (1999) 9.3. Faculty Memoir: A Conversation with Professor Laura Nader (2000) 9.4. College Sports Reform: The Problems of Presidents and Rising Expenses in the Knight Commission Report of 2010 9.5. European Expansion of Higher Education: The Bologna Process (1999) 9.

6. Higher Education: A New Life Begins Credits Index.