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....
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....