Books Archive

PERSPECTIVES: The Onerous Impact of “Niceness”

"Niceness is incredibly attractive and, at the same time, difficult to critique."

by Future U/ January 23, 2022/ Books, Education, Perspectives, Society/

AUDIOCAST/VIDEO Now Available, “The Quantified Scholar” with Professor Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

Faculty productivity metrics do more than measure faculty productivity. "Measuring up" has consequences for faculty and fields of study. Here's …

by Future U/ December 10, 2021/ Books, Higher Ed, Perspectives/

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/

PERSPECTIVES: In “The Quantified Scholar,” Professor Pardo-Guerra Reveals How Metrics Influence Scholarship

"Slowly but surely, quantification systems reshaped academic departments, the interests of scholars, the organization of disciplines, and the employment conditions …

by Future U/ August 26, 2021/ Books, Higher Ed, Perspectives/

I Stumbled Upon ‘Neoliberalism’ and It Captured My Attention

My ongoing education to understand and respond to Neoliberalism in Higher Education continues with the book, Neoliberalism and Academic Repression.

by Frank Fear/ May 27, 2021/ Books, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: “Education Is the Foundation of Democracy, Schooling is the Foundation of Capitalism”

Neoliberalism and Academic Repression: The Fall of Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump Haymarket Books, 2019) co-edited by Erik …

by Future U/ April 20, 2021/ Books, Neoliberalism, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: New Book Makes Strong Case for ‘Engaged Scholarship’

“Andrew J. Hoffman draws upon existing literature and personal experience to bring attention to the problem of academic insularity—where it …

by Future U/ March 25, 2021/ Books, Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: New Book Investigates Neoliberalism’s Impact on Higher Education

John S. Levin, Marie C. Martin, and Ariadna I. Lopez Damian, University Management, the Academic Profession, and Neoliberalism. State University of …

by Future U/ November 28, 2020/ Books, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, News Briefs/

PERSPECTIVES: In New Book, Wendy Brown Explores How Intensification of Neoliberalism Contributed To “Apocalyptic Populism”

Brown’s book, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West, is available from Columbia University …

by Future U/ September 8, 2019/ Books, Neoliberalism, Society/

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