Auteur: Newfield Christopher Newfield

Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about crisis is overblown, humanities departments do face increasing pressure from administrators, poli …

Emphasizing how profoundly the American research university has been shaped by business and the humanities alike, Ivy and Industry is a vital contribution to debates about the corporatization of high …

An essential American dream-equal access to higher education-was becoming a reality with the GI Bill and civil rights movements after World War II. But this vital American promise has been broken. Ch …

This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health. Numbers are both controlling and fragile. They drive public policy, figuring into everything from …