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...Yulia Gilich; Tony Boardman Abstract The demand for a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), made by graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), culminated in the wildcat strikes of 2019–20 across the University of California system. Graduate students made a seemingly...

...Keri Facer; Christopher Newfield Abstract The authors organized a conference, “Global Higher Education in 2050: Imagining Universities for Sustainable Societies,” at the University of California, Santa Barbara, March 4–6, 2020, right before the campus was closed for eighteen months in response...

...Keri Facer Abstract This essay argues that thinking about university futures requires not only practices of critique and desire, but practices of rigorous and reflexive imagination. Building on Bill Sharpe's three horizons framework, it argues that debates about university futures are dominated...

...Misty G. Anderson Abstract If the twenty-first-century university is to repent of its racist past and present in order to become something other than an instrument of late capitalism, it will need conceptual space and language that break from the neoliberal and Enlightenment frameworks many faculty...

...Premesh Lalu Abstract After apartheid, that is, after what some call racism's last word, how does the university institutionalized by the operation of apartheid reason imagine itself as being in and of the world? This is a question that lies at the heart of asking “What is the university...

... on several non-modern crises, crises affecting (1) the modern conflict between knowledge and thought; (2) the modern dispute between the superior, technical faculties and the inferior, critical faculty; (3) the university understood as the original source of ends-driven research, on the one hand, and open...

...Nivedita Menon Abstract This article addresses three interrelated themes: the institutional transformations of Indian universities since India's independence, debates in India over the assumed universality of Western modes of knowledge production and transmission, and the overarching philosophical...

... deliriously, before the year 1968 was what it would become. —Roberto Bolaño, Amuleto Each page of Roberto Bolaño's 1999 novel Amuleto is haunted by the trauma of the Tlatelolco Massacre (October 2, 1968), when riot police and military forces brutally shot unarmed university and high school students...

...Majd Kayyal; Lubna Safi Abstract The Palestinian student movement inside the Israeli academy was established within hostile universities. Palestinian students were not engaged in any institutional production of knowledge and therefore could not develop an alternative, anti-colonial framework within...

...University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Graduate Collective Abstract This short dispatch reflects on the recent cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) student movement at the University of California. We outline a short history of student labor activism at the University of California...

...Kostas Gavroglu Abstract The ranking systems for universities aim at the quantification of all aspects of university life. For many decades, universities prided themselves on the differences among them. Rankings reduced discussions about the qualitative differences among universities to discussions...

... interdisciplinary initiatives in academia and highlighting the challenges often presented by specialization when amplified in the corporate sphere, this essay imagines a future university of 2050 in which interdisciplinarity has become structurally integral and transformative. The essay closes by proposing concrete...

.... The essay attempts to demonstrate how the “liberal” has become the cultural logic of a communal-fascist regime, insofar as the regime is harnessing universities to its project of redefining citizenship in line with its recently passed citizenship laws. In this context, how might a hijacked “idea...

...Pedro Fiori Arantes Abstract Brazil has around half of Latin America's twenty-five best-ranked universities, and all of them are public. Most Brazilian public universities are also socially embedded, building knowledge in dialogue with communities, and are involved in defending human rights, social...

...FIGURE 1. BAPSA celebrates its foundation day at Jawaharlal Nehru University, November 15, 2019. Photograph by Gaurav J. Pathania. ...

...Mbali Mazibuko Abstract This short essay offers reflective feminist insight into the Fees Must Fall Movement of 2015–16 that was led by students and workers at universities in South Africa. It considers the ways in which Black feminist life is negotiated and embodied in a contemporary student...

...Ajay Skaria Abstract In June 2024, the University of Minnesota withdrew its offer of appointment to Professor Raz Segal to head the university's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Drawing on the Segal case, this essay offers a conceptual and philosophical history of academic freedom...

...Blu Buchanan; Amara Miller Abstract As scholar-activists, the authors explore efforts of police disarmament within the context of an emerging social movement sweeping the University of California system. The Disarm UC coalition challenges the myth of policing as necessary for the production...