University Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/university/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:20:23 +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 University Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/university/ 32 32 The Future of the Global University https://www.publicbooks.org/the-future-of-the-global-university/ Fri, 06 Jul 2018 15:00:54 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=22181 Great universities seek to erase the borders that confine intellectual exchange. The aspiration is at once scholarly and political: policies informed by research will topple ...

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]]> Striking Resemblances https://www.publicbooks.org/striking-resemblances/ Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:00:07 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=19809 Kadin Henningsen, a graduate student and teaching assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), went on strike this past February with 2,500 of his coworkers to protect their jobs and (no pressure) the future possibility of liberal arts education. In the process, Henningsen may have discovered the perfect role model for the millions […]

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]]> Who Can Save the University? https://www.publicbooks.org/who-can-save-the-university/ Mon, 12 Jun 2017 15:00:47 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=13334 That the public university has followed a disastrous trajectory for roughly four decades is a matter of broad agreement. In The Great Mistake, Christopher ...

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]]> When Stuart Hall Was White https://www.publicbooks.org/when-stuart-hall-was-white/ Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:57:25 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=9063 I do not recall when I discovered that Stuart Hall was black. Growing up in Britain as neoliberalism first began to take shape under the rule of Margaret Thatcher, I found that Hall’s work helped me …

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