Universities Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/universities/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:17:18 +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 Universities Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/universities/ 32 32 Reading after the University https://www.publicbooks.org/reading-after-the-university-english-departments/ Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:00:26 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=50860 If you want to support readers, the best hope will always be helping do away with economic compulsion and the division of labor.

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]]> America’s “Land Grab” Universities: Robert Lee on Colonial Extraction by “Treaty-Like Agreements” https://www.publicbooks.org/americas-land-grab-universities-robert-lee-on-colonial-extraction/ Tue, 19 Jul 2022 15:00:10 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=49220 “It’s not about the land underneath campuses. It’s land at a distance, that can be sold or managed to raise funds for endowments.”

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]]> The Best Classroom Is the Struggle https://www.publicbooks.org/teaching-students-about-american-empire/ Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:00:46 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=48801 “As a historian and educator of college students, my experience teaching on US imperialism is one of disappointment.”

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]]> Habits of Mind: John Warner on Teaching Writing https://www.publicbooks.org/john-warner-on-teaching-college-writing/ Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:00:34 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=48028 “You fall short and then you wonder, 'what could I do differently next time that gets us a little bit closer?' I love that process.”

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]]> Walking Among the University’s Ruins https://www.publicbooks.org/future-of-universities-american-democracy/ Tue, 08 Mar 2022 16:00:30 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=47787 Some wager that the end is not inevitable: that universities can reassert their centrality to the American liberal democratic project.

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]]> Ahmed’s Good Grief https://www.publicbooks.org/university-complaint-process-sara-ahmed/ Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:00:58 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=47536 Institutions separate complainers from one another and from their own support networks. But what if we complained as a collective?

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]]> Grounding the Humanities https://www.publicbooks.org/grounding-the-humanities/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:00:30 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=47014 A “regional” humanities abandons academia’s tepid globalism, and confronts local oppressions like prisons, schools, housing, and the police.

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]]> Mission Impossible https://www.publicbooks.org/mission-impossible/ Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:00:46 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=46110 The university has been changing, to be sure. But has the proportion of students who want to devote themselves to acts of humanistic creativity?

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]]> Harvard–Riverside, Round Trip https://www.publicbooks.org/harvard-riverside-round-trip/ Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:00:07 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=44806 In the contemporary United States, higher education does more to exaggerate than relieve class and cultural divisions.

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]]> How the Campus Becomes the Border https://www.publicbooks.org/how-the-campus-becomes-the-border/ Thu, 05 Aug 2021 15:00:50 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=44560 Since all data can now be used for immigration enforcement, universities cannot assume that collecting data on their students is safe.

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