...Catherine Prendergast; Nancy Abelmann Duke University Press 2006 Alma Mater College, Kinship, and the Pursuit of Diversit y To thy happy children of the future, those...

... and gender but also the cultural politics of liberalism; in turn, scholarship on the geopolitics of injury demonstrates the situatedness of both identity and economic forms. Brought together, these scholarly approaches provide an important lens on many of the contradictions of contemporary college campuses...

.... It then situates Hocquenghem’s text in relation to Michel Foucault’s reflections about origins of politics in ancient Greek in his first lecture course at the Collège de France, which took place the year before Hocquenghem’s book appeared, to suggest that the relation between the sexual and the political may...

...Benjamin Reiss In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings of 2007, a tendency to view mental illness through the lens of “risk” has been exacerbated on college campuses and beyond. Administrators, counseling centers, law enforcement teams, and policy task forces have encouraged widespread efforts...

... walked across the beautiful campus of the private liberal arts college where I teach in Connecticut. Along the way, I greeted and was greeted by students, staff, and other faculty. My geniality felt a little forced, because I was anxious about what awaited me at my walk’s end. The dean and I had...

... aid, and building construction. Small colleges ballooned into universities and universities into multiversities with Ellen Messer-Davidow thirty thousand or more students, city-sized campuses, and such enter- Focused on prises as medical centers...

... individualization Our university was founded on tobacco wealth, and now it has a tobacco-free campus. Trinity College was renamed as Duke University in 1924 to honor the tobacco magnate Washington Duke, who along with his sons devoted much of their fortune to building the college into an elite university...

...: it is the historically black college and university in the United States, its historical development and role in early-twentieth- century America, and its analytical place within the evolution of Du 86 Bill V. Mullen Bois’s own views...

... associated with the speciality. They find occupational niches, but not at the top of their respective domains. Typically graduating from third-tier, nonresearch colleges and universities, they have not acquired knowledge connected with substantial intellectual work: theory, extensive writing...

... of Gender, Society, and Culture at Hamil- ton College, in upstate New York, to deliver a public lecture on that cam- pus sometime during the academic year.2 It was agreed that I would do so on 3 February 2005, in conjunction with Susan...

.... Janet R. Jakobsen is the director of the Center for Research on Women at Barnard College. She is the author of Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics (Indiana University Press, 1998). She is coauthor, with Ann Pellegrini...

... of Decent Feelings Fred Moten 189 Contributors Muneer Ahmad is an assistant professor of law at American University Washington College of Law. He was previously a staff attorney at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center...

.... His most recent books are Questions of Modernity (University of Min- nesota Press) and Rule of Experts (University of California Press). Lisa Jean Moore, a medical sociologist, is currently assistant professor at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. Recently, she coauthored the second edition...

... That Matters (Paradigm). John Brenkman is distinguished professor at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He was a founding editor of Social Text and member of the Social Text collective until 1983. His latest book is The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy...

... to minimize tuition costs in order to maximize public access. It was hoped that every qualified person could go to college without regard for ability to pay. Academic attributes trumped financial ones, and the role of financial aid was to bridge...

..., and media work with a growing college initiative aimed at defeating “radical feminism” on campus. Its spokes- people are routinely asked to comment on issues related to women to “balance” the comments of spokespeople representing the National...

... that the young man’s education at a small evangelical college in the Ozarks had been funded by the Wal-Mart family’s philanthropic foundation, Harvey proclaimed him a “Sam Walton success.”1 Indeed, the Christian campus was only a short drive from Wal-Mart’s low-key headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas...

... within the university or college; and freedom of extramural utterance and action,” the contradictory imperatives of rights and responsibilities for the concept of freedom of extramural utterance causes the authors to postpone its discussion to the future.10 A similar conflict pervades...

.... The much debated recent efforts of the British academic unions, AUT (Association of University Teachers) and NATFHE (University and College Lecturers’ Union) now merged as the University and College Union, to back the broad-based...