Government and higher education / Patrick M. Callan
The economy and higher education / Margaret Gordon
Federalism in American higher education / Martin Trow
Research universities in a new era : from the 1980s to the 1990s / Roger L. Geiger
Liberal arts colleges : what price survival? / David W. Breneman
Community colleges : making winners out of ordinary people / Leslie Koltai
California : a multisegment system / Neil J. Smelser
Higher education coordination : Australia and the United States / Lyman A. Glenny
The return to Europe : issues in post-communist higher education / Ladislav Cerych


Faculty : differentiation and dispersion / Burton R. Clark
The president : a precarious perch / Judith Block McLaughlin and David Riesman
Students : interests, culture, and activism / Philip G. Altbach
Governing boards / Joseph F. Kauffman
New dimensions for general education / Virginia Smith
The humanities in the 1990s / Alberta Arthurs
Hearts, brains, and education : a new alliance for science curriculum / Marian Cleeves Diamond
Improving the quality of instruction / K. Patricia Cross
Behind the open door : disadvantaged students / Flora Mancuso Edwards
Campus climate in the 1980s and 1990s : decades of apathy and renewal / Ernest L. Boyer
Diversity on campus / Arthur Levine
Standardized testing in a national context / Donald M. Stewart
Afterword : a personal note on Clark Kerr / James A. Perkins.