This annual volume brings together papers related to the history of higher education in the United States and abroad. The papers are: (1) "Before and after Humboldt: European Universities between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (Robert Anderson); (2) "The Independent Intellectual as Academic Gadfly: One Variety of Anti-Academicism" (Hugh Hawkins); (3) "Rethinking Boundaries: The History of Women, Philanthropy, and Higher Education" (Andrea Walton); (4) "A Not So Distant Mirror: Great Depression Writings on the Governance and Finance of Public Higher Education" (Richard Novak and David Leslie); (5) "Exploring Our Professional Backyards: Toward Writing Recent History of American Colleges and Universities" (Roger L. Geiger, David B. Potts, and W. Bruce Leslie); and (6)"Markets and History: Selective Admissions and American Higher Education since 1950" (Roger L. Geiger). Each paper contains references. An annotated list of recent dissertations in the history of higher education is included. (SLD)