POSTED BY SARAH MINK

Spring 2021 | Vol. 107, No. 2

The spring 2021 issue of Academe builds on the campaign for a New Deal for Higher Education launched earlier this year by the AAUP, the American Federation of Teachers, and other allies. Contributors to the issue respond to the crisis now confronting higher education, calling for bold action to reinvest in colleges and universities; to reemphasize the core priorities of teaching, research, and learning; to advance racial and gender justice in the academy; and to forgive student debt and make college education an affordable path for all people. Eileen Boris, the Hull Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Annelise Orleck, professor of history at Dartmouth College and founding copresident of the Dartmouth AAUP chapter, served as guest editors of this special issue of the magazine.

FEATURES

Bold Action for Higher Education
What it will take to move a New Deal for Higher Education forward.
By Irene Mulvey

It Is Time to Invest in Colleges and Universities
Reinventing the US system of higher education.
By Randi Weingarten

Imagining a New Deal for Higher Education
A vision for a more equitable and sustainable future.
By Lisa Levenstein and Jennifer Mittelstadt

Restoring the People’s Universities
CUNY, the CSU, and the promise of socially transformative education.
By Alejandra Marchevsky and Jeanne Theoharis

Challenges and Possibilities at HBCUs after the COVID-19 Pandemic
Reinvesting in vital institutions.
By Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Kimberly M. Jackson

Bringing Abolition to the Ivory Tower
The fight to reimagine campus safety.
By Terri Smith and Adom Getachew

Graduate Student Workers on the Rise
A forum on graduate student organizing and the future of academic labor.
By Justine Modica, Mae Saslaw, John Klecker, Alex Miller, Surabhi Balachander, Jeremy Glover, and Glenn Houlihan