Ellen Schrecker is a retired professor of history at Yeshiva University and the author of numerous books, including No Ivory Tower, Many Are the Crimes, and The Lost Soul of Higher Education.
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The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia's golden age, when universities-well funded and viewed as essential for national security, economic growth, and social mobility-embraced an egalitarian mission. Swelling in size, schoo... SEE MORE