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After the Academic Revolution: A Retrospective Forum
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 12, Number 1, Autumn 1988
- pp. 1-16
- 10.1353/rhe.1988.0000
- Review
- Additional Information
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.