Winling casts higher education as the beneficiary and catalyst of the century's monumental state building projects--receiving millions in New Deal construction funds, even more from WWII-era military research, and directing the bulldozer's path during urban renewal schemes around the country...

Piemonte examines the preoccupation in medicine with cure over care, arguing that the traditional focus on biological intervention keeps medicine from addressing the complex realities of patient suffering...

The book offers a comprehensive discussion of conducting research on online talk...

The game, as Davies notes, was not just something imposed upon Natives in locales such as the Indian Industrial Training School in Haskell, Kansas (and elsewhere). The game provided linkages to the Native past...

For decades, the shortage of STEM talents has been a national concern in the United States...

Remember when Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were going to shake higher education to its foundations by giving courses from the world’s most prestigious colleges and universities away free to the world?

This book provides practical, specific, and insightful guidance to fight back, prevail, and thrive in challenging work environments...

Nuamah makes the case for “feminist schools” that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement...

In this interview, we have a candid conversation with Dr. Christopher Key Chapple of Loyola Marymount University...

What if everything we tell each other – and ourselves – about why we choose college isn’t true? Is higher education an ideal, a personal goal, or might it be a “job-to-be-done?”

Weiner argues that joy in medicine requires more than idealistic aspirations―it demands a capacity to see past the "otherness" that separates the well from the sick,...

Rueda offers a history of student organizing against dictatorship in twentieth-century Nicaragua...

The tactic of ‘no platforming’ has been used at British universities and colleges since the National Union of Students adopted the policy in the mid-1970s...

Colleges fiercely defend America’s higher education system, arguing that it rewards bright kids who have worked hard. But it doesn’t actually work this way...

Myers explores how black student activists—young men and women— helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics....

Baumgartner offers an intellectual and cultural history of the educational activism of African American women and girls in the long nineteenth century...

Hitz explores the interior world and shows that intellectual endeavor is not simply a matter of reading...

Where do good ideas come from?

Seider and Graves address how schools can help Black and Latinx youth to understand these racial disparities, resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes...

Burrows examines the fraught meeting place of slapstick and tragedy, asking us under what literary and performative conditions we extend and withhold sympathy....

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Discenna paints a compelling picture of “the denial of academic labor” happening across public and private institutions...

Ramsey offers a robust defense of Communication and the Humanities as disciplines of study...

Sutton describes the work of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, as well as his own scholarship.

Iverson highlights the importance of manufacturing in our economy as well as the ways parents, mentors, and teachers can work together to foster the character traits and critical thinking skills required in the twentieth-century workforce...