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Is It Possible to Teach Anti-Capitalism? On James Rushing Daniel’s “Toward an Anti-Capitalist Composition”
Ryan Boyd reviews James Rushing Daniels’s “Toward an Anti-Capitalist Composition.”...
Remaking the University
The Function of the University at the Present Time: On Julia Schleck’s “Dirty Knowledge”
Michael Meranze reviews Julia Schleck’s “Dirty Knowledge: Academic Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism.”...
We Other Humanists: On Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon’s “Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age”
“Crisis” is both the driving force and the false consciousness of the humanities....
Pitching the Discipline
Sebastian Lecourt considers "Humanist Reason," the new book by Eric Hayot....
What We’re Owed: John Warner on the Future of Higher Education
Ryan Boyd reviews John Warner’s latest book, “Sustainable. Resilient. Free.: The Future of Public Higher Education.”...
Fraud by Numbers: Metrics and the New Academic Misconduct
UCLA professor of Law and Communication Mario Biagioli dissects how metric-based evaluations are shaping university agendas....
Achieving the College Dream
Johann N. Neem reviews "Won’t Lose This Dream," a look at Georgia State University's program to graduate more students by Andrew Gumbel....
“We All Have Levers We Can Pull”: Reforming Graduate Education
What if we throw out the blueprints of exclusionary prestige and fuel a resistance that defunds the traditions of Higher Ed?...
Zoom and Gloom: Universities in the Age of COVID-19
Ryan Boyd considers two new books on higher education....
Is Safe-Enough Pragmatism Good Enough?
Richard Eldridge reviews “Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses.”...
“The Students Are the Material”: David Gooblar and the Art of College Teaching
Ryan Boyd reviews “The Missing Course” by David Gooblar....
Higher Ed on Autopilot
A new book projects a bleak future for US higher education....
Generous Worlds: Rethinking the Fate of the American University
Ryan Boyd reviews Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University.”...
Beautiful Questions: “How Humans Learn” and the Future of Education
“‘How Humans Learn’ is a splendid repository of ways to rethink how we teach college.” Ryan Boyd reviews Joshua R. Eyler’s new book....
Beyond the Counterculture: Rethinking College in the ’60s
Mark Garrett Cooper and John Marx review John Thelin’s “Going to College in the Sixties.”...
Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism
Jeff J. Williams talks to Bruce Robbins about George Orwell, the Sokal hoax, and his recent book, “The Beneficiary.”...
Remaking the University: Geoffrey Galt Harpham on Democracy and Interpretation in the United States
What do Frederick Douglass and the New Criticism have in common?...
Remaking the University: Metrics Noir
A review of three trenchant critiques of the culture of metrics....
Remaking the University: The Idea of the English University
Michael Meranze reviews Stefan Collini’s “Speaking of Universities.”...
Field of Dreams: Public Higher Education in the United States
Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon review Christopher Newfield’s new book on public universities....
What Is New About the New American University?
Will Michael Crow’s “New American University” help re-democratize the US or continue a trend of universities ratifying social inequality and wind up on a dust heap of halfway measures?...
Is College Still Worth It?
“Our failing colleges” got the A-side listing. The B-side, “our failing pragmatism: how a market focus hurt college learning” — never got played....
We Wish We Weren’t in Kansas Anymore: An Elegy for Academic Freedom
ONE OF THE GREAT CLAIMS of American higher education is that it protects and encourages something called “academic freedom,” a guarantee of protection for teachers and students to engage in free inquiry and exchange no matter how inconvenient or unpopular the ...
The Counterreformation in Higher Education
The public has a right to know what politicians and business leaders are really doing to their higher education systems, why they are doing it, and how to respond....
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