Abstract

These companion essays, written from the three higher education perspectives of university president, academic scholar, and graduate student, provide a twenty-year retrospective review of Jencks’s and Riesman’s classic work, The Academic Revolution. “Back to the Future” examines how the predictions made a generation ago have fared and examines the shelf life and value of The Academic Revolution as a historical study. Both pieces demonstrate the continued usefulness of The Academic Revolution as a platform for thought-provoking analytical dialogue among its readers, even a generation later.

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