ABSTRACT
Much of the overpersuasion has been done by the universities themselves, especially by the people in the social sciences. And if right-wing paranoids can prove to themselves that the lapse in authoritarian controls leads to "anarchy", they need not distinguish between Clark Kerr and Mark Rudd in deciding which better represents the university his taxes or contributions are supporting. A consequence of the combined developments, in which higher education becomes more and more omnivorous of resources while it becomes less and less able to elicit community support, is a collision course. The result, when combined with the fact that it is rapidly becoming easier for almost every young person to go to college than not to, is a really enormous rise in the cost of higher education. Even the conservative projections of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education put the increase in these costs at about twice the national rise of wages, and maybe three times the level of inflation.
