BY EILEEN BORIS The world awoke, and tartly spoke: “Your work is all the same: Work together or work apart, Work, each of you, with all your heart— Just get into the game!” —Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Socialist and the Suffragist,” Appeal to Reason, September 28, 1912 For decades I’ve found inspiration in this call…
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…
BY JULIE SCHMID It’s time for a reckoning. So said Representative Ayanna Pressley at the campaign launch of the New Deal for Higher Education on Wednesday. In a rousing kickoff, Pressley, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and other panelists talked about dreams achieved through higher education, but also the darker side of dreams deferred and a system…