SPECIAL ISSUE: HIGHER EDUCATION ON ITS KNEES
Introduction: Higher Education on Its Knees
Michelle Ty

Part 1: The University Gone Global
How Useful Should the University Be? On the Rise of the Global University and the Crisis in Higher Education
Gert Biesta

Quality and Equality: The Proposed UC Cyber Campus
Wendy Brown

The Living Indebted: Student Militancy and the Financialization of Debt
Annie McClanahan

Do Books Have a Place in a Shanghai World?
Lionel Ruffel

Part 2: Humanities Salvage
The Futility of the Humanities
Michael Bérubé

Why We Need the 16,772nd Book on Shakespeare
Geoffrey Galt Harpham

Once More, with Conviction: Defending Higher Education as a Public Good
Henry A. Giroux

What Good Is a Liberal Education?
Robert Paul Wolff

The Decay of a Discipline: Reflections on the English Department Today
Marjorie Perloff

A Viral Lexicon for Future Crises
Laurent Dubreuil

Can We Save What We Have Destroyed? Transmitting Literature
Hélène Merlin-Kajman

Part 3: History on Regional Grounds
From Meditative Learning to Impersonal Pedagogy: Reflections on the Transformation of an Indian Gurukula
V. Kaladharan

Contesting the Manufactured Crisis of Public Higher Education at CUNY
Francesco Crocco

A University Besieged: Initial Impressions of a Student Strike
Maritza Stanchich

Student Unrest, University Unrest: The English Gamble with the Future of Higher Education
Aaron Porter

Part 4: A Little Thing Called Resistance
Out of Place: Free Speech, Disruption, and Student Protest
Rei Terada

Creative Subversions: A Politics beyond Representation in the UK
Charlotte Latimer, Christopher Collier, Jaideep Shah, Katherine Burrows, Matthew Woodcraft, and Saoirse Fitzpatrick

Wild Captioning
Lyn Hejinian

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