Remaking the University

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  Higher Ed on Autopilot

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

  Christopher NewfieldDec 17, 2019

  • Education

  • Remaking the University

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  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 BoydJul 15, 2019

  • Education

  • Remaking the University

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  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 BoydMay 27, 2019

  • Education

  • Remaking the University

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  Beyond the Counterculture: Rethinking College in the ’60s

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

  John Marx, Mark Garrett CooperMay 13, 2019

  • Education

  • History

  • Politics

  • Remaking the University

• Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism

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

  Jeffrey J. WilliamsDec 23, 2018

  • Literary Criticism

  • Politics

  • Remaking the University

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  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 MeranzeMar 15, 2018

  • Education

  • Literary Criticism

  • Politics

  • Remaking the University

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  Remaking the University: Metrics Noir

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

  Christopher Newfield, Heather SteffenOct 11, 2017

  • Politics

  • Remaking the University

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  Remaking the University: The Idea of the English University

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

  Michael MeranzeMay 23, 2017

  • Cultural Studies

  • Education

  • Remaking the University

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  Field of Dreams: Public Higher Education in the United States

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

  Chad Wellmon, Paul ReitterDec 13, 2016

  • Cultural Studies

  • Education

  • Remaking the University

• 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 NewfieldApr 5, 2015

  • Nonfiction

  • Remaking the University

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  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 NewfieldSep 29, 2014

  • Cultural Studies

  • Education

  • Remaking the University

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  We Wish We Weren’t in Kansas Anymore: An Elegy for Academic Freedom

  Michael MeranzeMar 4, 2014

  • Remaking the University