Category: Neoliberal University
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Captains in the Army of Industry
READ MY NOTICE TO EXPRESS MYSELFAS A FREE ADULT CITIZEN OF THE STATE OF TEXAS The Land-Grant College and the Wave That Wasn’t A farm boy from East Lansing wrote to the new agricultural college there with a plan for his own education: “As soon as the wheat is sown,…
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The Old College and the Arithmetic of Failure
READ MY NOTICE TO EXPRESS MYSELFAS A FREE ADULT CITIZEN OF THE STATE OF TEXAS Mushrooms on Luxuriant Soil Philip Lindsley went to Nashville in 1824 because nobody there had a college. A Princeton graduate, a man who had already turned down several presidencies, he was drawn by the sheer…
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How Colonial Colleges Traded Away Their Inheritance
READ MY NOTICE TO EXPRESS MYSELFAS A FREE ADULT CITIZEN OF THE STATE OF TEXAS Fellowship Controversy in Colonial New England In 1721, two Harvard tutors, Nicholas Sever and William Welsteed, made their case to the Board of Overseers. The argument was simple enough on its face: the Harvard Charter…
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Built of Humans not Bricks: Cathedral Schools, Guilds, and the Governance We Inherited
The medieval university was not founded by anyone in particular, on any particular day, for any particularly noble reason but evolved by a process of accretion. And understanding what it accumulated into, and under whose authority, is the necessary first move before grasping exactly what the American college systems would…
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Liberal Autocracies: A Prologue to Seven Blogs
READ MY NOTICE TO EXPRESS MYSELFAS A FREE ADULT CITIZEN OF THE STATE OF TEXAS In the late 1720s, Harvard College lost its democracy over what appears, at this distance, to have been a personnel dispute of no lasting consequence. For several decades prior, the college’s small resident faculty had…
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