Going to College in the Sixties

John R. Thelin, who went to college in the 1960s, is a University Research Professor and a member of the Educational Policy Studies Department at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education, A History of American Higher Education, and Games Colleges Play: Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics.

List of Illustrations Foreword by Michael A. Olivas Preface Acknowledgements 1. Rediscovering American Higher Education in the 1960s 2. College Prep 3. "The Knowledge Industry" 4. Student Activities and Activism 5. Colleges and Curriculum 6. College Sports 7. Conclusion Index About the Author

John Thelin tells this story of rising enrollments and growing administrations in his new book, Going to College in the Sixties. In doing so, he joins an ever-expanding list of historians who urge us to abjure the hippie nostalgia that so often still defines the 1960s. He lifts campus protest out of its purple haze and relocates it amid the emerging trends of shifting undergraduate demographics and the data-driven expansion of university bureaucracy. This approach makes sense of our present far better than the more familiar tale of a student revolution that failed. Instead, he shows that '60s students of all political stripes and demographic backgrounds participated in a historical shift that replaced one set of contradictions with another. * LA Review of Books * In order to cover an entire decade of student experience, Thelin impressively draws upon oral histories, national and local newspapers, campus publications, student memoirs, and institutional archives. Going to College in the Sixties thus offers some unique insights and breaks ground in the proposal that the decade was not all that it has been made out to be. * History of Education Quarterly *