Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE: CONTEXTS -- 1. Academic Development and Social Change: Higher Education in Massachusetts before 1945 -- Prologue: Three Centuries of College Building, 1636-1929 -- Historical Dynamics of Academic Change -- The Long Pause, 1929-1945: University Development in Depression and War -- 2. The World Transformed: A Golden Age for American Universities, 1945-1970 -- Academic Ideas and Developmental Opportunities in the Postwar Years -- The Three Revolutions: Enrollments, Finances, and Faculty -- Disarray and Reassessment: A Second Debate on Academic Values -- PART TWO: INSTITUTIONS -- 3. Emergence of the Modern Research University: Harvard and M.I.T., 1945-1970 -- From Depression to Prosperity: The Early Postwar Years -- Consolidating the New Focus: Research and Graduate Education -- The Economics of Academic Progress -- Undergraduate Education in the Research University -- Organizational Dimensions of Academic Change -- The Old Order Changes -- 4. Evolution of the College-centered University: Tufts and Brandeis, 1945-1970 -- The Postwar Years at Tufts -- The Founding of Brandeis -- Institutional Mobility in the Early Golden Age -- The 1960s at Tufts -- The 1960s at Brandeis -- Organization, Leadership, and Institutional Change -- Dilemmas of the College-centered University -- 5. Transformation of the Urban University: Boston University, Boston College, and Northeastern, 1945-1972 -- Postwar Boom: Veterans, Growth, and Capital Accumulation -- Shifting Emphasis in the 1950s -- The ' 'Bonanza Years'' at Boston College -- The "Blooming" at Northeastern -- The 1960s at Boston University -- Institutional Mobility and Organizational Form -- The Irony of the Urban University -- The Good Times End -- 6. From State College to University System: The University of Massachusetts, 1945-1973 -- The Early Postwar Years.

UMass in the 1950s -- UMass in the 1960s -- Academic Organization and Political Systems -- From Rapid Growth to Steady State -- PART THREE: PATTERNS -- 7. The Institutional Complex and Academic Adaptation, 1945-1980 -- The Institutional Complex in Action: 1945-1970 -- Adaptations of the 1970s -- The Institutional Complex and the Reform Agenda -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.