What is the “golden age” that we should harken back to in order to inspire and shape the future of higher education? This is the timely framing that opens Higher Education for All. For historian Andrew Stone Higgins, the answer to this question requires digging through a vast array of primary sources to provide a deep deconstruction of the 1960 California Master Plan. The plan, which is often heralded in today’s world as part of a bygone golden age, Higgins shows us is not that simple.