<P>This long-awaited sequel to Richard Hofstadter and Wilson Smith's classic anthology <I>American Higher Education: A Documentary History</I> presents one hundred and seventy-two key edited documents that record the transformation of higher education over the past sixty years.</P><P>The volume includes such seminal documents as Vannevar Bush's 1945 report to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, <I>Science, the Endless Frontier;</I> the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in <I>Brown v. Board of Education</I> and S <I>weezy v. New Hampshire;</I> and Adrienne Rich's challenging essay "Taking Women Students Seriously." The wide variety of readings underscores responses of higher education to a memorable, often tumultuous, half century. Colleges and universities faced a transformation of their educational goals, institutional structures and curricula, and admission policies; the ethnic and economic composition of student bodies; an expanding social and gender membership in the professoriate; their growing allegiance to and dependence on federal and foundation financial aids; and even the definitions and defenses of academic freedom. </P><P>Wilson Smith and Thomas Bender have assembled an essential reference for policymakers, administrators, and all those interested in the history and sociology of higher education.</P>