A significant problem of higher education today is public skepticism. If the educational leadership will stimulate political leaders to cope constructively with six central problems, the remaining years of the 1970's could be an "age of wisdom." The problems are: (1) the need for the assurance of greater resources in coming years; (2) the need for assistance to private institutions so that they may maintain or increase their share of total enrollment; (3) that the institutions themselves must prove they are capable of effective management of their considerable resources; (4) that higher education can no longer justify its existence with claims of the greater social mobility of college graduates; (5) that career-long education can no longer be sold simply as leisure-time activity; and (6) the oppressive regulation of individual institutions. Much higher education decision-making is left-handed. The campaign ahead must be waged to reclaim public confidence and gain understanding and respect among federal and state officials. (Author/MSE)