Issue 20.1 of qui parle, “Higher Education on its Knees” is now available in print through Duke University Press, and online through Project MUSE and JSTOR. This special four-part issue contains eighteen essays dealing with various dimensions concerning the ongoing global crisis in higher education. This Fall/Winter 2011 issue features:
- Introduction by Michelle Ty
- Gert Biesta on the rise of the global university and the crisis in higher education
- Wendy Brown on the proposed UC Cyber-Campus
- Annie McClanahan on the living indebted
- Lionel Ruffel on the fate of books and the academic library
- Michael Bérubé on “The Futility of the Humanities”
- Geoffrey Galt Harpham on “Why We Need the 16,772nd Book on Shakespeare”
- Henry A. Giroux on defending higher education as a public good
- Robert Paul Wolff on the good of a liberal education
- Marjorie Perloff on “The Death of a Discipline”
- Laurent Dubreuil on “A Viral Lexicon for Future Crises”
- Hélène Merlin-Kajman on transmitting literature
- V. Kaladharan on the transition from meditative learning to impersonal pedagogy in Indian education
- Francesco Crocco on “Contesting the Manufactured Crisis of Public Higher Education at CUNY”
- Maritza Stanchich reports from the University of Puerto Rico on “A University Besieged”
- Aaron Porter on “The English Gamble with the Future of Higher Education”
- Rei Terada on “Free Speech, Disruption, and Student Protest”
- Charlotte Latimer, et. al. on Creative Subversions
- Lyn Hejinian on Wild Captioning