Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities

by Michael Bérubé (Editor), Cary Nelson (Editor)

While both colleges and their professors are widely distrusted and criticized, Americans also point to higher education as their most valuable and durable product in the global economy. Why--and how--is higher education in America under fire?

400 pages, Paperback

Published July 25, 2020

About the author

Michael Bérubé is the director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and the Paterno Family Professor in Literature at Penn State University.

Reviews

[Allie Walters · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Slick… Chicago, LA, wherever—in America our seats of learning are surrounded by the worst, the biggest, the most desperate ratshit slums in the civilized world. What does this mean? What is its context?”

LOL!