The Great Mistake

<h4>Paul Reitter teaches in the German Department at Ohio State University, where he is also the director of the Humanities Institute. With Louis Menand and Chad Wellmon, he recently co-edited The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook (2017). His writing has appeared in The Nation, Harper’s, The Paris Review, TLS, and Bookforum.</h4>

Paul Reitter

<h4>Chad Wellmon is associate professor of German Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the co-editor, with Paul Reitter and Louis Menand, of the forthcoming The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook (Chicago) and the author, most recently, of Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University (Johns Hopkins).</h4>

Chad Wellmon

Field of Dreams: Public Higher Education in the United States

Education

Remaking the University

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

Cultural Studies

Paul Reitter teaches in the German Department at Ohio State University, where he is also the director of the Humanities Institute. With Louis Menand and Chad Wellmon, he recently co-edited The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook (2017). His writing has appeared in The Nation, Harper’s, The Paris Review, TLS, and Bookforum.