Books About Universities
This list, culled from the once-upon-a-time blog of the St. Lawrence University Libraries, Odyssey Online, represents two lists of books about American Colleges and Universities, and represents a reasonably newish list of books about the higher education enterprise:
- The Globalization of Higher Education Edited by Luc. E. Webber and James Duderstadt
- The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities are Reshaping the Worldby Ben Wildavsky
- Admissions by Jean Hanff Korelitz
- Fixing College Education: A New Curriculum for the Twenty First Century by Charles Muscatine
- How University Works: Higher Education and a Low Wage Nation by Marc Bousquet
- Financing Higher Education Worldwide: Who Pays? Who Should Pay?by D. Bruce Johnston and Pamela Marcucci
- The Great American University: It’s Rise to Preeminence, it’s Indispensable National Role, and Why it Must be Protected by Jonathan R. Cole
- Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University by Gaye Tuchman
- The Last Professors: Corporate Universities and the Fate of the Humanities by Frank Donoghue
- Save the World on Your Own Time by Stanley Fish
- Nature of College: How a New Understanding of College Life Could Change the World by James Farrell
- Degrees of Inequality: Culture, Class, and Gender in American Higher Education by Ann Mullen
- The Moral University by Maurice Berube and Claire Berube
- The Great American University: It’s Rise to Preeminence, It’s Indispensable National Role, and Why It Must be Protected by Jonathan Cole
- Unmaking the Public University: A Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class by Christopher Newfield
- How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low Wage Nationby Marc Bousquet
- University of Google: Higher Education in the (post) Information Age by Tara Brazbazan
- Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University by William Clark