With Reunion Weekend upon us here at St. Lawrence, here are a sampling of recent books on the state of American colleges and universities at this moment in history. Hopefully a start on the literature of higher education, of the critiques and defenses of the enterprise we are all about:
- 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 Nation by 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