Introduction /by Alvin C. Eurich -- Agenda for the colleges and universities / by Honorable John W. Gardner -- The magnitude of American higher education in 1980 / by Sidney G. Tickton -- Higher education and the national interest / by Logan Wilson -- Cities and universities: collision of crises / by William Birenbaum -- The university and the world / by William W. Marvel -- The triumph of academic man / by Christopher Jencks and David Riesman -- The future of teaching / by William Arrowsmith -- The community college in 1980 / by Joseph Cosand -- Learning never ends: a plan for continuing education / by A.A. Liveright -- The college student of 1980 / by Nevitt Sanford -- The future undergraduate curriculum / by Lewis B. Mayhew -- Organizing for better instruction / by Elizabeth Paschal -- Toward a developed technology of instruction -1980 / by C.R. Carpenter -- Graduate education and research in the decades ahead / by Allan Carter -- The American campus -1980 / by Harold B. Gores -- Conservatism, Dynamism, and the changing university / by Clark Kerr.