Nisbet, Robert A. 1971. The degradation of the academic dogma: the university in America, 1945-1970. New York: Basic Books, Inc.  

Preface:

THIS BOOK IS a very considerable enlargement of the John Dewey Lecture I was privileged to deliver in Chicago, February 27, 1970, before the members and guests of the John Dewey Society. I am grateful to the officers and members of the Society for the honor of their invitation and for the kindness and warmth of their reception of the lecture. To Professor Ward Madden of Brooklyn College I give particular thanks for his helpful and generous representation of the John Dewey Society during the period leading up to the lecture and for comments on the contents of the lecture that have appreciably enhanced this book.

Both the lecture and the book are in very large part a consequence of reflections and writings on the American university that began during the final years of a full decade(1953-1963) of administration in the University of California. Well before the onset of the student insurrections of the 1960s, it had become evident to me that since WorldWar II changes had been taking place, more fundamental than any since the university first came into existence in America at the end of the nineteenth century as an adaptation of the traditional American college.

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