ABSTRACT
Administrators who understand the costs of repression thereby understand that students do have power and that their wishes and desires must be reckoned with, lest they respond again with violence or, worse yet, by withdrawal. So universities have begun to experiment with ways of incorporating students into the process of deciding how the organization will be run and its resources allocated. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the conditions provoking political change on college campuses and the processes through which that change occurs. The chapters provide data and theories necessary for an understanding of what will happen today and tomorrow, through careful analyses of what occurred yesterday. It will be a while before administrators begin to see how these "innovations" work out, and whether the status quo can be preserved or whether substantial alterations of campus political arrangements will be required to keep the peace.
