Volume 24, Number 7 · April 28, 1977
Veritas at Harvard
By Sigmund Diamond
Education and Politics at Harvard
by Seymour Martin Lipset, by David Riesman
McGraw-Hill, 440 pp., $15.95
In 1967 the trustees of the Carnegie Corporation approved a proposal made by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to study the financing of higher education in the United States. A decision was soon made to broaden the study to include as well the system of higher education itself. The inquiry—conducted under the direction of the Carnegie Commission on Higher, Education—was surely the most extensive ever made of the university system in the United States and probably of any other country. From 1967 to 1975 the volumes flowed from the press: twenty-one reports, plus a final report, Priorities for Action; nineteen technical reports; eighty-four volumes of 'sponsored research.'
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