REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

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....

MICHAEL MERANZE

EDUCATION

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

Pitching the Discipline

Sebastian Lecourt considers "Humanist Reason," the new book by Eric Hayot....

SEBASTIAN LECOURT

EDUCATION

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY

CULTURAL STUDIES

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.”...

RYAN BOYD

EDUCATION

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POLITICS

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....

MARIO BIAGIOLI

EDUCATION

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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....

JOHANN N. NEEM

EDUCATION

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

POLITICS

“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?...

RACHEL ARTEAGA, BRIAN DEGRAZIA, JIMMY HAMILL, STACY M. HARTMAN, STEPHANIE MALAK, ASHLEY CHEYEMI MCNEIL, KATINA ROGERS, BETH SELTZER

EDUCATION

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

Zoom and Gloom: Universities in the Age of COVID-19

Ryan Boyd considers two new books on higher education....

RYAN BOYD

EDUCATION

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

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.”...

RICHARD ELDRIDGE

EDUCATION

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POLITICS

PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY

“The Students Are the Material”: David Gooblar and the Art of College Teaching

Ryan Boyd reviews “The Missing Course” by David Gooblar....

RYAN BOYD

EDUCATION

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

Higher Ed on Autopilot

A new book projects a bleak future for US higher education....

CHRISTOPHER NEWFIELD

EDUCATION

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

Generous Worlds: Rethinking the Fate of the American University

Ryan Boyd reviews Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University.”...

RYAN BOYD

EDUCATION

REMAKING 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....

RYAN BOYD

EDUCATION

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

Beyond the Counterculture: Rethinking College in the ’60s

Mark Garrett Cooper and John Marx review John Thelin’s “Going to College in the Sixties.”...

MARK GARRETT COOPER, JOHN MARX

EDUCATION

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

POLITICS

HISTORY

Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism

Jeff J. Williams talks to Bruce Robbins about George Orwell, the Sokal hoax, and his recent book, “The Beneficiary.”...

JEFFREY J. WILLIAMS

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

POLITICS

LITERARY CRITICISM

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?...

MICHAEL MERANZE

EDUCATION

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

POLITICS

LITERARY CRITICISM

Remaking the University: Metrics Noir

A review of three trenchant critiques of the culture of metrics....

CHRISTOPHER NEWFIELD, HEATHER STEFFEN

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

POLITICS

Remaking the University: The Idea of the English University

Michael Meranze reviews Stefan Collini’s “Speaking of Universities.”...

MICHAEL MERANZE

EDUCATION

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

CULTURAL STUDIES

Field of Dreams: Public Higher Education in the United States

Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon review Christopher Newfield’s new book on public universities....

PAUL REITTER, CHAD WELLMON

EDUCATION

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CULTURAL STUDIES

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?...

CHRISTOPHER NEWFIELD

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

NONFICTION

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....

CHRISTOPHER NEWFIELD

EDUCATION

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

CULTURAL STUDIES

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 ...

MICHAEL MERANZE

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

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....

CHRISTOPHER NEWFIELD

EDUCATION

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