Abstract
for the new institutions that were being founded and for the colleges that suddenly found themselves being turned into universities. But I also thought and I believe it more strongly now that 100 years later we may be experiencing the beginnings of another revolution. That conviction forms the core of the argument in this article. We are entering another time of great change in American higher education; just what the results will be is uncertain, because colleges and universities are so well structured to resist change. But I think it may bring us to a closing of the circle first opened a century ago with the innovation of graduate study. At that time, the research university was an entirely novel product of its era the likes of which had never been seen before on this continent. And now, 100 years lat r, the research university stands at the very center of a challenge and an opportunity. That is because, although it does not provide higher education for most of the Americans who receive an education, it does train most of those wh provide that education. If I am right about the prospect of another centuryclosing revolution in higher education, it will happen in and because of the research universities. The actual course of events will
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