After the University

Table of Contents
Introduction: An Autobiography of Higher Learning
Ideal Readers
Internal and External Goods, Disciplined Study and the University
Deflection, Value Capture, and Alienation
Section I: From Universitas to "the University"
1. Knowledge Institutions: Guild, Factory, Social System
Universitas: Community, Guild, Job
Enlightenment, the Department of Spiritual Affairs, and Good Institutions
Abolish the Universitas!
The Knowledge Factory and the Department of Truth
Guild Goods, Public Goods
2. From Corporation to Social System
Making Education Public
The Professional Path
Personae of the Professional Path
3. The University Factory
Industrial Enterprise and Educational Capital
Disciplining the Disciplines
Living the University: The Professor
The Adjunct and the Unofficial University's Broken Existences
4. The Student, Striving, and External Goods
Quantifying Intellectual Desire, or, University Statistics as Philosophical Problem
A University Education: To Have and Have Not
Educational Capital, Surplus Students, and the Political Economy of the University
Excursus I: The University, Technology, and the Magic of Credentials
The Dependency of Intellectual Practices
Credit, Credentials, and the Belief in Higher Education
The Currency of Belief
The Deformative Effects of Credential Currency
Section II: Going Professional: The Modern University
5. Democracy, Progress, and the University
The Classical College and Intellectual Desire
Professionalization as Moral Discipline and Social Utility
The Morrill Act as Historical and Institutional Caesura
Data, Democracy, and the Search for Standardization
Reinventing a College Tradition
6. Efficiency, Social Reform, and the Ends of Knowledge
Academic Efficiency and Professionalization
The Professional Social Scientist: Deflection and Value Capture
The Contradictions of Higher Learning in a Democracy
7. An Alternative Vision: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Ends of Knowledge
Like Running a Railroad
Academic Freedom and the Contradictions of Professionalization
Professionalizing Social Problems
Truth-Seeking and the Immediate and Mediate Aims of Disciplined Study
The Black University
Excursus II: General Education, Curriculum Reform, and the Dream of Unity, or, What Is Missing?
Why General Education?
Reconciling College and University
Administrative Devices, Deflection, and Value Capture
The Academy
An Impossible Profession
Section III: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Human Capital Theory
8. Access to What? The Belief in Higher Education and Human Capital
Cultivating Belief in Higher Education
The University's Democratic Purposes
Against Perfectibility: Cold War Liberalism and Higher Education
9. Human Capital and the University
Human Capital Theory Makes a Comeback
Human Capital Theory, the Management Revolution, and the System of Higher Education
10. The California Master Plan: Human Capital Theory Made Manifest
Administering the Future
The Logic of Meritocracy
The Dramaturgy and Deflection of Higher Education
Educational Relations, Social Conflict, and the University
11. The New Left, the Liberal Counterrevolution, and Meritocracy
Where Is the University?
The Students' Push to Reform the Multiversity and a "Reinvigorated Liberalism"
Liberals' Reforms: Nothing Out of Bounds
Liberalism Riven: David Riesman and Daniel Bell, Counterrevolutionaries
12. The Higher Faith and Student Credit
The Political Economy of Higher Education ca. 1970
The Carnegie Commission and the Counterrevolution in Higher Education
Creating a "Competitive Market"
A Category for Every College: The CCHE Rolls Out the Carnegie Classification Schema
Human Capital and Student Credit
The "New" Student and the Deflection of Intellectual Desire
13. The Educational Revolution and an African University
Elite Capture and Higher Education
The Legacies of Colonial Education
The Developmental University: Nation-Building and its Contradictions
An African University? The Case of UCDS and Makerere
Mazrui, Rodney, and the Value of Intellectual Work
Relevance, Africanization, and Detachment
"Your Ivory Tower Has Been Smashed": The Globalization of Higher Education
Excursus III: August 11, 2017, Moral Clarity, and the Other University
Moral Clarity Goes MIA
The Capture of College and the Rise of the Other University
The Management of Moral Lives
Campus, Factory, Community
Conclusion: The University is Not Enough
"Adult Learners" and the Life of the Mind
What is to be Done?