Four futures for higher education after neoliberalism

Posted on July 27, 2021 by Bryan Alexander

How might higher education change if society moves beyond the neoliberal order?

Scholar Chris Newfield recently published a fine set of scenarios for future colleges and universities. It is very much worth your time to explore. Here I’ll set the stage and sketch it out as an introduction.

Newfield is the great scholar of how American states have defunded public higher ed. In a series of books he has investigated the politics and economics in…