After the University

Coming soon! After the University by Chad Wellmon.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Autobiography of Higher LearningIdeal ReadersInternal and External Goods, Disciplined Study and the UniversityDeflection, Value Capture, and AlienationSection I: From Universitas to "the University"1. Knowledge Institutions: Guild, Factory, Social SystemUniversitas: Community, Guild, JobEnlightenment, the Department of Spiritual Affairs, and Good InstitutionsAbolish the Universitas!The Knowledge Factory and the Department of TruthGuild Goods, Public Goods2. From Corporation to Social SystemMaking Education PublicThe Professional PathPersonae of the Professional Path3. The University FactoryIndustrial Enterprise and Educational CapitalDisciplining the DisciplinesLiving the University: The ProfessorThe Adjunct and the Unofficial University's Broken Existences4. The Student, Striving, and External GoodsQuantifying Intellectual Desire, or, University Statistics as Philosophical ProblemA University Education: To Have and Have NotEducational Capital, Surplus Students, and the Political Economy of the UniversityExcursus I: The University, Technology, and the Magic of CredentialsThe Dependency of Intellectual PracticesCredit, Credentials, and the Belief in Higher EducationThe Currency of BeliefThe Deformative Effects of Credential CurrencySection II: Going Professional: The Modern University5. Democracy, Progress, and the UniversityThe Classical College and Intellectual DesireProfessionalization as Moral Discipline and Social UtilityThe Morrill Act as Historical and Institutional CaesuraData, Democracy, and the Search for StandardizationReinventing a College Tradition6. Efficiency, Social Reform, and the Ends of KnowledgeAcademic Efficiency and ProfessionalizationThe Professional Social Scientist: Deflection and Value CaptureThe Contradictions of Higher Learning in a Democracy7. An Alternative Vision: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Ends of KnowledgeLike Running a RailroadAcademic Freedom and the Contradictions of ProfessionalizationProfessionalizing Social ProblemsTruth-Seeking and the Immediate and Mediate Aims of Disciplined StudyThe Black UniversityExcursus II: General Education, Curriculum Reform, and the Dream of Unity, or, What Is Missing?Why General Education?Reconciling College and UniversityAdministrative Devices, Deflection, and Value CaptureThe AcademyAn Impossible ProfessionSection III: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Human Capital Theory8. Access to What? The Belief in Higher Education and Human CapitalCultivating Belief in Higher EducationThe University's Democratic PurposesAgainst Perfectibility: Cold War Liberalism and Higher Education9. Human Capital and the UniversityHuman Capital Theory Makes a ComebackHuman Capital Theory, the Management Revolution, and the System of Higher Education10. The California Master Plan: Human Capital Theory Made ManifestAdministering the FutureThe Logic of MeritocracyThe Dramaturgy and Deflection of Higher EducationEducational Relations, Social Conflict, and the University11. The New Left, the Liberal Counterrevolution, and MeritocracyWhere Is the University?The Students' Push to Reform the Multiversity and a "Reinvigorated Liberalism"Liberals' Reforms: Nothing Out of BoundsLiberalism Riven: David Riesman and Daniel Bell, Counterrevolutionaries12. The Higher Faith and Student CreditThe Political Economy of Higher Education ca. 1970The Carnegie Commission and the Counterrevolution in Higher EducationCreating a "Competitive Market"A Category for Every College: The CCHE Rolls Out the Carnegie Classification SchemaHuman Capital and Student CreditThe "New" Student and the Deflection of Intellectual Desire13. The Educational Revolution and an African UniversityElite Capture and Higher EducationThe Legacies of Colonial EducationThe Developmental University: Nation-Building and its ContradictionsAn African University? The Case of UCDS and MakerereMazrui, Rodney, and the Value of Intellectual WorkRelevance, Africanization, and Detachment"Your Ivory Tower Has Been Smashed": The Globalization of Higher EducationExcursus III: August 11, 2017, Moral Clarity, and the Other UniversityMoral Clarity Goes MIAThe Capture of College and the Rise of the Other UniversityThe Management of Moral LivesCampus, Factory, CommunityConclusion: The University is Not Enough"Adult Learners" and the Life of the MindWhat is to be Done?