ABSTRACT
The history of American higher education, like most story arcs provided in historical texts, has a dominant narrative. This narrative, and the several episodes subsumed under it, is occasionally refined and nuanced as historians tweak various points, but there is remarkable agreement on major turning points and the general trajectory of the story. It will surprise no one that the dominant story in the history of higher education is largely told from a white, male, Protestant, and middle/upper-class point of view.
