The End of the University as We Know It?

by Sharon Stein The long-term effects of the coronavirus on higher education are still unfolding, alongside other emerging, overlapping political, economic, social, and ecological crises. Thus, it is difficult to say anything for certain about the ‘post-COVID’ future of higher education. To use a metaphor of the weather, what we are currently facing may only …

On the Possibility of Higher Education Otherwise

by Sharon Stein Universities are deeply embedded in the larger social, political, and economic system that surrounds them. Today, that system is in crisis. We face not only a global pandemic, but also the cascading effects of climate change and biodiversity loss, economic austerity and precarity, mental health crises, social fragmentation, right-wing political movements, large-scale …