... The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan. By John Aubrey Douglass. Stanford, Calif: Stanford Univ. Press. 2000. xiii, 460 pp. $55.00 This book offers a persuasive and in many ways unprecedented history of the policy debates that gave California one of the most...

... which makes it a useful, measured, and intelligent contribution to debates about referentiality and textual effect. Jill Matus, University of Toronto Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education...

...Sarah Ensor Abstract This article argues that pedagogy may help us respond to the precarity of higher education by reclaiming the forms of provisionality, accident, and exposure endemic to collaborative learning. Putting kinship theory into contact with studies of contagion, I suggest...

...Christopher Newfield The United States has long been seen as the world's leader in higher education, but in fact its academic outcomes have been stagnating or falling for years. Newfield shows that the current funding model for higher education is not the solution to this educational crisis but its...

... rights movement and Lyndon Johnson’s Higher Education Act of 1965, which provided financial incentives to colleges and universities for recruiting economically and educationally disadvantaged students. City College had long been known as the “Harvard of the proletariat” for offering free education...

... increase in college enrollment over the past century, America's most influential educational institutions largely serve the same social classes as they did in the past, and largely for the same reasons. The essential difference is that while the benefits of higher education were once understood as form...

... of program building followed the passage of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and the Vietnam Veterans’ Readjustment Benefits Act of 1966, which brought Vietnam vets into a changing workshop, where students still learned to write what they know but also, as pre–civil rights racial liberalism turned to post...

.... This essay posits that debates over the methods of African American higher education shaped the function of literature within black modernity. It explores how Tuskegee Institute founder Booker T. Washington transformed literature and books into instruments of a practical approach to learning through...

... of theory and pedagogical practice while highlighting the diverse disciplinary, institutional, and political contributions of American literature to higher education and community-based teaching and learning. It’s been almost fifty years since Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire urged...

... © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Announcements Call for Papers: Special Issue of American Literature:  “Pedagogy: Critical Practices for a Changing World” Over the last year, the media’s funereal preoccupation with the death of higher education has thrown into question...

... Taiwanese higher education in a position much like that of the United States when its postwar boom ended, but a falling birthrate, brain drain, and new educational technologies suggest that problems that took decades to develop in the West will occur in Taiwan far more quickly. The problems of English...

..., University of Wisconsin; and Xiomara Santamarina, University of Michigan. Call for Papers: Special Issue of American Literature:  “Pedagogy: Critical Practices for a Changing World” Over the last year, the media’s funereal preoccupation with the death of higher education has thrown into question...

... authors, quit lit has not countenanced how the casualization of academic labor has coincided with efforts to diversify higher education. 3 (Except through the insidious myth of the diversity hire?) 4 Invocations of Thea Hunter, a Black woman who perhaps exemplifies the deathliness of academic...

... the corporate university’s imperatives that college is meant to prepare young men and women to be laborers in the marketplace. Although she does not address higher education directly in The New Prophets of Capital , a study of the exploitative effects of contemporary capitalism, Natalie Aschoff ( 2015...

... its clout as “radical,” queer studies reproduces class inequity in higher education. For Brim, differentiating rich from poor queer studies (with the adjectives attending to academics’ institutional affiliation and the socioeconomic status of an institution’s student population) provides a space...

... literary criticism, this insight has been applied most powerfully in examinations of race. The trajectory of these critiques is, arguably, the most important unfinished mission of research and teach- ing in US higher education. As Chandan Reddy writes in his compelling new study, Freedom...

... energies to the logic of “mythic violence.” The last chapter reads the poetry of Hughes as a Janus-faced critique/celebration of pedagogical modes, mounting a critique of the higher education apparatus’s conservatism and quietude and a celebration of the “poetic community” that characterizes collectivities...

.... Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit” (United Nations 1948). Due to the marginalization of material welfare within the hierarchy of basic needs, Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra...

..., and the development of Chicano studies in higher education. The main intervention of the book is to address Spanish colonialism in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries in relation to Chicano studies. This book draws up theoretical notions of the “homeland” which focuses on “a people, a place...

... the metacritical com- plexities of periodization in the manner of, say, a James Chandler. Neverthe- less, it does expertly recover the specific ways literary curricula became con- solidated in higher education, while outlining plausible reasons for an increasing skepticism toward ossified period categories...