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Acknowledgments

I send thanks and bouquets to the Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley—sponsors of the Clark Kerr Lectures—both for doing me the honor of selecting me in the first place and for facilitating all my preparatory efforts for the lectures. Jud King, director of the center, was supportive and helpful both formally and informally, as was John Douglass, senior research fellow. Rondi Phillips, staff member at the center, gracefully handled all logistics, right up to the point of equipping me properly with microphones at the lectures. Steven Brint, fellow sociologist and vice provost for undergraduate education at UC Riverside, guaranteed that my delivery of the third lecture on that campus was a successful occasion. I would also like to thank Ziza Delgado, my long-standing and flawless research assistant, for locating and interpreting empirical materials on selected trends in higher education. The staff of the Education-Psychology Library on the Berkeley campus was, as always, cheerfully accommodating in my bibliographical searching. Finally, I am most grateful to colleagues, friends, and curious others for coming to my lectures in impressive numbers, for their evident interest in what I had to say, and for helping me with apt and sophisticated questions and observations after each lecture.