Remaking the American College Campus

Jonathan Silverman is an associate professor of English and co-director of American Studies at University of Massachusetts–Lowell. He has served as the Fulbright Roving Scholar in Norway. Meghan M. Sweeney is an associate professor of English at University of North Carolina–Wilmington.

• Table of ContentsForeword by Sharon HaarPrefaceIntroductionSpace Matters: Rethinking University Spaces for and with Underrepresented Students (La’Tonya Rease Miles)Fifty Shades of Green: The Meshing of Culture, Teaching and Business in College Campuses’ Sustainability Efforts (Mauricio Espinoza)Beds, Baths and Offices at the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies (Kelly Hankin, Tim Seiber and Julie Townsend)A Bridge, Not a Wall: Uses of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at Bronx Community College (Kate Culkin)Nice (Icha)Bod: How Washburn University’s Mascot Came to Dominate Campus (Kelly Watt)The Campus That Oil Built: Visualizing the University of Texas’ Extractive Wealth in the Age of the Corporate University (Sarah ­Stanford-McIntyre)Keep Morton Weird: Reading a Humanities Building in the American South (Nicholas C. Laudadio)Where (and When) Is College? (Miles McCrimmon)A Sense of Belonging: Using Siftr to Empower Freshmen(Margene Anderson)Exploring Virtual Spaces Within the Community College Campus (Cristina DeLuca Savarese)The Invisible Adjunct: Inverse Panopticism in the English Department (Jane Weiss)Art Graft: Public Art and State Education (Igor Marjanović and Katerina Rüedi Ray)Access, Tradition and Belonging at “the Alma Materthe Nation” (Jessica Cowing)Teachable Space: When the Spaces Where We Teach Become the Spaces That We Teach (Robert M. Bednar)Communitas and Liminal Space in the National Parks (Bill Atwill and Dan Noland)West Point’s Washington Hall: America’s Panoptical Puzzle (William F. Hecker III)About the ContributorsIndex