Linking ASHE History and Scholars of the Past with the Future

The history of ASHE is rich in the contributions, struggles, and accomplishments of people who thought and wrote about academe in the sixties, seventies, and eighties. Likewise, ASHE’s future rests in the very capable hands of today’s scholars, both young and mature, who are bringing fresh insights and multiple interests to the study of higher education. Hobbs describes the beginning of the association, the circumstances that launched it into independence, its coming of age, and his hopes for its tomorrows.