POSTED BY SARAH MINK
Winter 2020 | Vol. 106, No. 1
Contributors to this issue of Academe articulate a broad vision of higher education’s social mission. Articles focus on addressing the needs of working, low-income, and incarcerated students; victories in coalitional student-led organizing; institutional reckonings with the legacy of slavery; and other topics.
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FEATURES
Risks and Costs in the Quest for Social Mobility through Higher Education
Confronting threats to higher education’s social mission.
By Patricia McGuire
Recognizing the Reality of Working College Students
Changes in policy and practice can ensure that work “works” for all students.
By Laura W. Perna and Taylor K. Odle
The Human Work of Higher Education Pedagogy
How can we address the needs of our increasingly diverse students?
By Jesse Stommel
LGBTQ Students and the Liberation of College Campuses
Learning from the collective movements of queer and transgender students of color.
By Jennifer Brier
Higher Education’s Reckoning with Slavery
Two decades of activism and scholarship have led to critical self-examination.
By Leslie M. Harris
The Purge of Higher Education
What do we lose when small colleges close?
By Eva-Maria Swidler
Why I Go to Prison
A teacher’s plea for (societal) clemency.
By James Ferry
Data Snapshot: Graduate Students, Social Class, and Academia’s Promise
Do graduate programs provide real upward mobility, or are they a revolving door for the elite?
By Mathieu Dubeau and Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer
Data Snapshot: Is Higher Education a Pipeline to the American Dream?
Big data can help universities improve social mobility.
By John N. Friedman
Data Snapshot: Trends in Faculty Participation in Presidential Searches (online only)
AAUP governance surveys chart a century of growing faculty involvement.
By Hans-Joerg Tiede
BOOK REVIEWS
Academic Freedom under Threat
Keith E. Whittington reviews The Future of Academic Freedom by Henry Reichman and Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom by Joan Wallach Scott.
Building the Student Body Politic
Susan Jarosi reviews Living on Campus by Carla Yanni.
A Curriculum for Black Youth Activism
Thai-Huy Nguyen reviews Shelter in a Time of Storm by Jelani M. Favors.
COLUMNS
From the Editor: Students and the Social Mission
Faculty Forum: The Tyranny of the Immediate
Legal Watch: The Status of Graduate Assistant Organizing
NOTA BENE
Restructuring Changes in Effect
Historic Union Vote in New Mexico
Statement in Defense of Knowledge
Report on Dismissal at Pacific Lutheran University
Statement on Wisconsin Presidential Search
Defending Public Higher Education in Alaska
Statement on Hong Kong Universities
Statement about Assault on Indian University
AAUP Comments on Proposed NLRB Rule
