At least in the realm of rhetoric, 1968 was a year of revolution. It is no wonder, then, that in that year two distinguished scholars, David Riesman and Christopher Jencks, wrote a book about the contemporary university using the term. Don’t be fooled by the title, however. The Academic Revolution focused not on the student uprisings so common in those days, but on two emerging trends that were transforming the contemporary university: the rise of the meritocracy in faculty appointments and student admissions and the solidification of faculty control over what it taught and studied.

July 28, 2016 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education