An intimate look at the history of Carleton University.

Carleton College began in 1942 by offering evening courses for academic credit. It became a full-time college with the return of veterans from Europe. For the next decade it survived as a private non-sectarian institution, with the administration trying to balance the budget, the professors trying to ensure respectable academic standards, and the students trying to imitate college experience as they imagined it. In the 1960s there was a transformation as the baby boomers reached university age and the Ontario government loosened its purse strings to ensure that there would be places in the universities for them. By the end of the 1960s Carleton was a mid-sized university on a new campus. In Creating Carleton Blair Neatby and Don McEown describe the role of the administration, the faculty, and the students in shaping the university.