Higher Education Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/higher-education/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:10:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Higher Education Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/higher-education/ 32 32 Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving https://www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-complicity-seth-rockman-on-plantations-textiles-and-the-art-of-weaving/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:23 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=61141 “But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”

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]]> Toward a University of Repair https://www.publicbooks.org/toward-a-university-of-repair/ Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:00:28 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=61095 What was so unique about Haverford College that it was worth mocking in a Congressional hearing?

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]]> Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! https://www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-higher-and-secondary-ed-alliance/ Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:01:41 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60693 The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

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]]> This Is Not a Choice—It Is a Charge: How HBCUs Must Embrace Black Radical Love & Empower Queer and Trans* Students https://www.publicbooks.org/this-is-not-a-choice-it-is-a-charge-how-hbcus-must-embrace-black-radical-love-and-empower-queer-and-trans-students-in-the-trump-era/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:58:19 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60736 This essay calls in HBCUs to recommit to Black queer and trans* inclusion.

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]]> To Save Public Higher Ed, Stop Revering California’s Tiered System https://www.publicbooks.org/to-save-public-higher-ed-stop-revering-californias-tiered-system/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:58:54 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60876 Open admissions to all state-funded public universities could break the competitive concentration of prestige, increase affordability, and restore Americans’ faith in higher education.

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]]> To Save Higher Ed, Seek Our Black and Hispanic Men https://www.publicbooks.org/to-save-higher-ed-seek-our-black-and-hispanic-men/ Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:00:20 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60722 Policymakers and institutional leaders seeking to preserve higher education’s functionality should consider the enrollment and completion rates of Black and Hispanic men.

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]]> Our Right to Our Union: Graduate Student Workers Under Threat https://www.publicbooks.org/our-right-to-our-union-graduate-student-workers-under-threat/ Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:02:36 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60752 University leaders may make a show of opposing Trump when funding is under threat, but they will happily align themselves with him in confronting graduate student workers.

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]]> Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production https://www.publicbooks.org/academics-must-seize-the-means-of-knowledge-production/ Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:01:57 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60710 Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

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]]> Toward the Next American University: A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Higher Ed https://www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-next-american-university-a-roundtable-discussion-on-the-future-of-higher-ed-1/ Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:00:33 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60869 The path higher education was on before Trump’s reelection was neither certain nor stable. There is not much to go back to now.

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]]> The History of Women’s Studies Is a History of Conflict https://www.publicbooks.org/the-history-of-womens-studies-is-a-history-of-conflict/ Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:00:33 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60489 Women’s studies programs in the United States are threatened by authoritarian pressure. For example, the Ohio legislature restricts how marriage and abortion can be presented in the college classroom, while the Florida state government took over a public college and abolished its gender studies program. At the federal level, words including “gender” and “women” are […]

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