ABSTRACT
It is a credit to the builders of American higher education that the foundations which they laid down in colonial times for the organization and administration of higher education were still standing in the twentieth century. Although in the meantime the colonial college had become a modem university, although student bodies had grown from hundreds to thousands, and although budgets had skyrocketed from thousands to millions of dollars, the frame of academic government remained basically unchanged as late as the 1950s. The source of power and even its distribution remained much the same. However, beginning in the 1960s, startling increases in the size of the educational establishment and shifting pressure groups in the public brought important modifications and a number of proposals for even more fundamental changes.
