May 30, 2003

Have We Lost the 'Public' in Higher Education?

By ROBERT ZEMSKY

Descriptions of higher education in the decades immediately following World War II often take on a dreamlike quality -- the kind of nostalgia in which one forgets what hurt and misremembers what mattered. Despite the attempts of critics of modern-day higher education to portray them as such, the 1950s and '60s were not a golden age. Those years were as often characterized by political numbness as by fevered commitment, and they ended in a spate of violence that included the bombing at

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