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PERSPECTIVES: New Book Chronicles History of Conservative Backlash Against Higher Education

Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), authored by …
by Future U/ February 18, 2024/ Book Review, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Who Owns the University? (Boards Do)

"'The Autocratic Academy' disabuses faculty members of self-delusions that they have power in the existing arrangements."
by Future U/ December 25, 2023/ Book Review, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Recent Books Underscore the Impact of Professor-Student Engagement

Steve Mintz reviews Relationship-Rich Education and The Cost of Inclusion: How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses. 
by Future U/ January 3, 2023/ Book Review, Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Making the Case for Politically Engaged Scholarship

Politically engaged scholarship is the "preeminent scholarly approach to confronting neoliberalism and its excesses." 
by Future U/ June 30, 2022/ Book Review, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “They Underestimated the Degree of Corruption”

O'Connell and Peters chronicle the century-long effort by eight scholar-activists to push back against Big Ag.
by Future U/ September 17, 2021/ Book Review, Books, Perspectives, Society/

Berkeley’s Brown Reveals Strength of Neoliberalism’s Grip

As Professor Brown puts it, we are living “in the ruins of Neoliberalism.” It’s up to us to change that …
by Frank Fear/ December 4, 2020/ Book Review, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: ‘They Put the Institution Before the Victims’ Is Sobering Conclusion of New Book on Sexual Assaults

It’s no secret that America has ‘an institution problem.’ Institutional self-serving behavior is the issue. That’s the bottom line in …
by Frank Fear/ September 27, 2020/ Book Review, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

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