sect. 1. An overview: The university president -- The past and present of American higher education -- sect. 2. The contemporary Catholic and Christian university: The vision of the Catholic university in the world of today -- The challenges of Christian higher education -- The Catholic university and freedom -- The changing face of Catholic higher education -- New focus for Catholic education in the 1970s -- sect. 3. Special concerns in higher education in modern America: Science and technology in modern perspective -- Social science in an age of social revolution -- The moral purpose of higher education -- The civil rights revolution: from confrontation to education -- sect. 4. The years of campus crisis: In defense of the younger generation -- The generation gap -- The lessons of the student revolution -- A case study: universities and government interact in crisis -- sect. 5. The future: church, education, world: The post-Vatican II church -- Education in the year 2000 -- Problems and opportunities on a very interdependent planet.