Contending that universities as presently organized have become educationally bankrupt and irrelevant to the needs of society, Harold Taylor, former president of Sarah Lawrence College and well known in international circles for his contributions to educational philosophy, presents an incisive blueprint for the meaningful reform of American higher education in the 1970s. Among other proposals he argues for a national system of volunteer service by students in the field of teaching, community action, the creative arts and social research."