If you had to pick one critical university studies book to book club, what would it be? Preference for the a focus the contemporary and The Money.

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Lend and Rule — Common Notions Press

Public higher education’s future is being held hostage by financial institutions and actors. How did it get this way?  Lend and Rule reveals the “shadow governance” of debt and credit in the United...

Stein's recent "Unsettling the University" is very good fwiw

It's a chapter not a book but Melinda Cooper's chapter on universities in Family Values is crucial

@bakerdphd.bsky.social@cantb.bsky.social@davidkaib.bsky.social if you have any ideas

The Bousquet and the Newfield are the heavyweights but I'm sure there's more