Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities

<h4>Christopher Newfield is a professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his PhD in American literature from Cornell University in 1988, and his central interests include: American culture after 1830, with particular attention to fiction since 1940; race; sexuality; affect; crime; California; and corporate culture. Professor Newfield is currently at work on two projects: The Empowerment Wars, which explores the literature, management theory, and everyday life of cubicle dwellers in corporate America; and Starting Up, Starting Over, an eyewitness account of the underside of the "New Economy" in Southern California. He is the author of Unmaking the Public University: The 40-Year Assault on the Middle Class (Harvard UP, 2008) and other books, and runs the <a href="http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/">Remaking the University</a> blog.</h4>

Christopher Newfield

Suboptimal by Design: On Laura T. Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen’s “Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities”

Education

The Death of Human Capital?: Its Failed Promise and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption

Aashish Mehta is an associate professor of Global Studies at UC, Santa Barbara. He is a development economist whose research examines the connections between globalization, economic development, education, employment, and inequality.&nbsp;He enjoys working with colleagues across the social sciences. His current projects include a multidisciplinary, multi-authored book demystifying higher-ed statistics for the public (forthcoming, Johns Hopkins University Press), a co-authored book manuscript examining how economic growth changes the nature of public services corruption in India, and an analysis of US public universities’ growing tendency to stratify students by race and class across differentially lucrative fields of study. His work has appeared in multiple peer-reviewed economics, political science, and public policy journals. He worked at the Asian Development Bank prior to joining UCSB and received UCSB’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2017.

Aashish Mehta

A Socialist Alternative to Human Capital Theory?

Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education

Higher Ed on Autopilot

Remaking the University

Weapons of Math Destruction

Engines of Anxiety

The Seductions of Quantification

Heather Steffen is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University, and her research focuses on academic labor, the history of higher education, the history of criticism, and cultures of quantification and audit in the 20th- and 21st-century United States. Dr. Steffen is currently at work on a book, Academic Labor: Criticism and Work in the Modern American University, and she is collaborating with Christopher Newfield on a long-term project, The Limits of Numerical: Metrics and the Humanities in Higher Education, which is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is also part of a team studying undergraduate workers on American campuses, <a href="http://www.allworkedup.org">All Worked Up: A Project about Student Labor</a>.

Heather Steffen

Remaking the University: Metrics Noir

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Designing the New American University

What Is New About the New American University?

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

Aspiring Adults Adrift

Is College Still Worth It?

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

The Great University Gamble

The Counterreformation in Higher Education

Christopher Newfield is a professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his PhD in American literature from Cornell University in 1988, and his central interests include: American culture after 1830, with particular attention to fiction since 1940; race; sexuality; affect; crime; California; and corporate culture. Professor Newfield is currently at work on two projects: The Empowerment Wars, which explores the literature, management theory, and everyday life of cubicle dwellers in corporate America; and Starting Up, Starting Over, an eyewitness account of the underside of the "New Economy" in Southern California. He is the author of Unmaking the Public University: The 40-Year Assault on the Middle Class (Harvard UP, 2008) and other books, and runs the <a href="http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/">Remaking the University</a> blog.