How Student Unrest Changed Higher Education

Philosophical Shifts in October of 1969.

Harold Taylor, author of Students Without Teachers: The Crisis in the University (1969), reflected on the student revolution that raged on campuses across America during the mid 1960s. "It became clear that it was no longer possible to stand slack-jawed while we made reports about civil disorders and studies of urban problems," he explains. "We could no longer stand quietly by while history rushed forward." Sometime in the mid 1960s students and society reached the end of an era, he claims, and the first protest at Berkeley in 1964 provided the "possibility of hope" for students who had never considered the possibility of revolt against their own educational systems. Risen from the civil rights movement, this revolt produced changes in curriculum, in student regulations, in policy-making decisions, and in how colleges in general did business with students. By the end of the decade, ...

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