Readings
The course readings are available in a variety of formats and venues. I encourage you to buy copies of the paperback books/e-books listed below. I will attempt to place as many books ON RESERVE in the Mina Rees Library, 1st floor as I can. You can check out ON RESERVE books for limited amounts of time (usually several hours only). Check the syllabus below to see which books and articles are “ON RESERVE.” In addition, I have scanned some of the course readings, which are selected chapters in books and primary documents, which I have placed on the course Group site on the Academic Commons under the “Files” link there. You will be able to read these scanned materials online and/or print them out (as you wish). A number of the readings are available in online academic journals (there are instructions in the syllabus as to how to access these online journals via the Mina Rees Library site) or on various educational websites (again, you can read these online or print them out). If you are not accessing those online resources from computers inside the GC you will need to authenticate in to the Library’s proxy server, the connection to which can be established by using your standard GC login credentials.
Course Books to Purchase: If you are going to purchase any of these books or e-books online I encourage you to do so via the icon for the Amazon web site that you can find on the Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library main page (http://library.gc.cuny.edu/). If you access Amazon through that link and then purchase your books there, the library receives a 5 percent bonus payment for every dollar you spend with Amazon, which contributes to the library’s ability to purchase new books and periodicals for use by all GC students and faculty. You can save a lot of money by purchasing Used copies of many of these books, but make sure you leave sufficient time for them to be shipped. An “*” next to a book means we are using it early on in the syllabus and you should procure it, in whatever format you choose, ASAP.
REQUIRED
- Biondi, Martha, The Black Revolution on Campus, Univ. of California Press, 2012.
- *Fabricant, Michael and Stephen Brier, Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2016. [You can get a better price (30% discount) for the hardcover edition of the book by ordering it directly from the JHU Press website and using the code “HNAF” when you order. And if it’s still in effect, there is a 40% discount if you can use the code “HHOL” to order on the JHU Press website.]
- Ferguson, Roderick, The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2012.
- Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, NYU Press, 2011.
- *Newfield, Christopher, The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2016.
- *Veysey, Laurence, The Emergence of the American University (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1965; paperback, 1970).
OPTIONAL
- Aronowitz, Stanley, The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning, Beacon, 2000.
- Crow, Michael and William Debars, Designing the New American University, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2015.
- Tobin, Eugene and William Bowen, Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education, Princeton Univ. Press, 2015.
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