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The 1960s was the most transformative decade in the history of American higher education—but not for the reasons you might think.Picture going to college in the sixties: the protests and marches, the teach-ins and sit-ins, the drugs, sex, and rock'n'roll—hip, electric, psychedelic. Not so fast, says bestselling historian John R. Thelin. Even at radicalized campuses, volatile student demonstrations coexisted with the'business as usual'of a flagship state university: athletics, fraternities and sororities, and student government.In Going to College in the Sixties, Thelin reinterprets the campus world shaped during one of the most dramatic decades in American history. Reconstructing all phases of the college experience, Thelin explores how students competed for admission, paid for college in an era before Pell Grants, dealt with crowded classes and dormitories, voiced concerns about the curriculum, grappled with new tensions in big-time college sports, and overcame discrimination. Thelin augments his anecdotal experience with a survey of landmark state and federal policies and programs shaping higher education, a chronological look at media coverage of college campuses over the course

Who reads Going to College in the Sixties?

Author

John R. Thelin, with a foreword by Michael A. Olivas

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421426815

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Education

Rating

4.8 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14