ABSTRACT
In the 1980s, the notion of crisis became even more dominant with publications such as Peter Scott's The Crisis of the University and Marjorie Reeves's The Crisis in Higher Education – two books that, though similar in title, were rather different in approach and aim. The notion of community had been a particularly strong nodal point within the debate on the idea of higher education. While the notion of community and the issue of expansion had already been central to the debate on higher education for decades, the 1960s saw another issue rise in prominence: student power. The history of higher education since World War II is a history of expansion. Similar to earlier variants of the 'new student' debate, writers like Minogue, Niblett, and Reeves shared the belief that the student intake was changing and that a growing number of students had an instrumental attitude towards education that ran counter to the purpose of higher education.
