This paper, delivered by the president of the American Council on Education at the First U.S. Conference on Libraries and Information Science in Higher Education (Tokyo, Japan, Mary 12, 1969), explores the interrelations between libraries and educational institutions. (JB)

Looking back at what has been happening ON university campuses since 1963, one may become concerned about what may happen TO the institutions involved. There is nothing immutable or sacrosanct about the way colleges and universities are organized and operated, but they must be able to resist pressures for changes that would threaten their…

The author sees higher education as a battleground between prevailing meritocracy and forces of egalitarianism in "what is at best a competition and at worst a conflict. Focuses on the "growing contradiction of the guiding principles behind educational endeavor, weights the charges of the adversaries, and suggests the possible outcome. (Author)

Four aspects of the university that are essential to its effective functioning. (Editor)