ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that contemporary demands for access to university knowledge and research constitute distinctly new pressures on universities. Cooperation between universities and state government takes many forms. Individual faculty members contract with state government agencies, advise individual policy makers or policy committees, testify on legislation, and/or serve on task forces and advisory committees. Social scientists conducted studies, planned public policies, designed and evaluated programs of the war on poverty and of the Great Society, and immersed themselves in the problems of cities generally. In California, Alan Post's modest request for state government participation in the by-product of university research was replaced by more aggressive demands from state law makers. State funding of research at the University of California was substantial. New pressures to regain productivity and achieve greater competitiveness in the global economy have focused attention on the importance of higher education, often in rhetorical terms not heard since the Soviets launched the Sputnik satellite in the 1950s.
