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The Prophet of Academic Doom

Robert Nisbet predicted the managerialism that has brought universities low. But he also saw a way out.
by Ethan Schrum via The Chronicle of Higher Education on October 19, 2021
Picture of soldiers from WWI.

There Is More War in the Classroom Than You Think

Hitchcock and Herwig discuss their findings on the teaching of war in higher education.
by William I. Hitchcock, Meghan Herwig via War on the Rocks on September 7, 2021
The 1.25-million-square-foot USC Village residential complex in Los Angeles.

The Rise of the UniverCity

Historian Davarian Baldwin explains how universities have come to wield the kind of power that were once hallmarks of ruthless employers in company towns.
by Davarian L. Baldwin, Meagan Day via Jacobin on September 2, 2021
Students at Colby College

Harvard–Riverside, Round Trip

In the contemporary United States, higher education does more to exaggerate than relieve class and cultural divisions.
by Mitchell L. Stevens via Public Books on August 11, 2021
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College Costs

Historical perspectives on the money that fuels American higher education, and Americans’ attempts to reckon with the power dynamics that result.
Graduation cap on pile of money
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Policymakers Created the Student Loan Industry — and The Debt Crisis

While they never intended for more than 45 million Americans to have this much debt, policymakers in the 1960s made fateful choices.
by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Made By History on August 5, 2021
Police at the University of California at Berkeley guard the campus building where then-Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos was to speak on Feb. 1, 2017.
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The Racist Roots of Campus Policing

Campus police forces developed as part of an effort to wall off universities from Black neighborhoods.
by Eddie R. Cole via Made By History on June 2, 2021
Aerial view of the University of Chicago
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Higher Education’s Racial Reckoning Reaches Far Beyond Slavery

Universities helped buttress a racist caste system well into the 20th century.
by Davarian L. Baldwin via Made By History on April 1, 2021
A group of people comprising the Save California Ethnic Studies Coalition, sitting in a circle having a meeting in a lobby.

The History Behind California's Plans to Require Ethnic Studies for Public-School Students

A bill making ethnic studies a graduation requirement for California public-school students is expected to be signed by Governor Newsom.
by Iris Kim via TIME on September 15, 2020
Deserted farm road through corn fields.

Land-Grab Universities

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
by Tristan Ahtone, Robert Lee via High Country News on March 30, 2020

Higher Education's Reckoning with Slavery

Two decades of activism and scholarship have led to critical self-examination.
by Leslie M. Harris via Academe on January 1, 2020

Jefferson’s Doomed Educational Experiment

The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via The Atlantic on November 10, 2019

Want to Save the Humanities? Make College Free

It's time to shift the social contract of education away from short-term job training toward long-term development.
by David M. Perry via Pacific Standard on May 9, 2019

The Decline of Historical Thinking

For the past decade, history has been declining more rapidly than any other major, even as more and more students attend college.
by Eric Alterman via The New Yorker on February 4, 2019
Line graph of history BAs granted, peaking in the 1960s and declining in the 2010s.

The History BA Since the Great Recession

In the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, no undergraduate area of study has fallen off more than history.
by Benjamin M. Schmidt via Perspectives on History on November 26, 2018

Have Elite US Colleges Lost Their Moral Purpose Altogether?

The ethical formation of citizens was once at the heart of the US elite college. Has this moral purpose gone altogether?
by Chad Wellmon via Aeon on August 16, 2018

Slavery and the American University

Determined researchers are finally drawing the lines between higher education and America's original sin.
by Alex Carp via New York Review of Books on February 7, 2018
Women with field hockey sticks in a physical education class circa 1920.

How the US College Went from Pitiful to Powerful

In its first century the American higher-education system was a messy, disorganised joke. How did it rise to world dominance?
by David Labaree via Aeon on October 11, 2017

For-Profit Colleges in American History

Trump University follows a long line of for-profit schools that have faced accusations of dishonesty.
by A. J. Angulo via Process: A Blog for American History on June 20, 2017
Penn State University

Why Colleges Should Get Rid of Fraternities for Good

Reform is simply not possible.
by Lisa Wade via TIME on May 19, 2017

Names in the Ivy League

The argument over renaming Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School is neither trivial nor simple.
by Joshua Rothman via The New Yorker on November 26, 2015
Abstract painting depicts faces staring at each other from either end of the canvas.

Bridging the Gap

A new book portrays five American historians who published popular books that sacrificed neither intellectual depth nor political bite.
by Michael Kazin via New York Review of Books on June 5, 2025
William F. Buckley Jr. surrounded by piles of books in his office.

What Made William F. Buckley So Unusual

The author of a new biography talks about the conservative journalist’s life and legacy.
by Sam Tanenhaus, Cullen Murphy via The Atlantic on June 1, 2025
Vannevar Bush

Science in War, Science in Peace: Origins of the NSF

The establishment of a federal agency devoted to space, physics, and more belied a cross-party consensus that such disciplines were vital to national interest.
by Danny Robb via JSTOR Daily on May 28, 2025
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The History of Government Influence Over Universities

During the Cold War, the government relied on universities for research, but also saw scholars as dangerous.
by Jeffrey Rosario via Made By History on May 20, 2025
Edward Said.

Said’s Specter

Columbia is at war with its intellectual heritage.
by Timothy Brennan via The Chronicle of Higher Education on April 14, 2025
A UC Berkeley student picket supports a strike protesting demonstrators’ arrests, 1964.
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Whose Side Are College Administrators On?

There’s a long history of politicians targeting student protesters — and of campus leaders abetting those efforts.
by Lauren Lassabe Shepherd via HNN on March 19, 2025
American Flag with Stars replaced with atoms and stripes replaced by syringes and graduated cylinders

The Rise (and Fall?) of the National Science Foundation

In the ’50s, America declared science an ‘endless frontier.’ We may be reaching the end of it.
by Carly Anne York via The Chronicle of Higher Education on February 21, 2025
Protest encampment at University of California Berkeley.

The Free Speech Movement at Sixty and Today’s Unfree Universities

Can speech be free when billionaires buy influence on campus?
by Robert Cohen via Academe on December 4, 2024

"College Sports: A History"

A new book considers the challenges of controlling the commercialization of college sports.
by Glenn C. Altschuler, David Wippman via Inside Higher Ed on November 26, 2024
Illustration of an octopus with a "no talking" symbol, with its tentacles around the globe.

How Cancel Culture Panics Ate the World

A set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents.
by Samuel P. Catlin via The New Republic on November 25, 2024
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