College Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/college/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:19:13 +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 College Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/college/ 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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]]> 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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]]> Private Pain, Public Disinvestment: Talking Student Debt with Elizabeth Tandy Shermer https://www.publicbooks.org/student-debt-indentured-students-elizabeth-tandy-shermer/ Tue, 17 May 2022 15:00:15 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=48587 “Individual Americans thought they were the only ones who could not afford to send their kids to college.”

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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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]]> Don’t Save the University—Transform It https://www.publicbooks.org/dont-save-the-university-transform-it/ Mon, 24 May 2021 16:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=43220 “Why read and write about literature while the world burns?” Because, in working to end the oppression faced by so many, the humanities can help.

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]]> Transforming Teaching amid the Coronavirus https://www.publicbooks.org/transforming-teaching-amid-the-coronavirus/ Fri, 01 May 2020 15:00:23 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=35646 Even though most professors are forced to value research over teaching, many are excellent teachers. It’s time to honor that skill.

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]]> College Worth Fighting For https://www.publicbooks.org/college-worth-fighting-for/ Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:00:20 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=34558 Professors are in a class struggle, a real fight that cannot be won with critique alone.

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]]> Is College Worth It? https://www.publicbooks.org/is-college-worth-it/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 15:00:54 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=31269 What does it take to get to college graduation? The question becomes more urgent as college tuitions rise and education debt accumulates, even though baccalaureate completion remains a baseline credential for at least modestly secure employment. Our sprawling nation’s deep divisions in terms of class, race, and geography mean that people arrive at college with […]

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]]> “To Examine Society and Try to Change It” https://www.publicbooks.org/to-examine-society-and-try-to-change-it/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:00:15 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=19853 I take a seat near the middle of the table at 6:06 p.m. The room soon fills, students clutching coffee, shedding coats; someone brings gummy worms and sends them ...

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