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Winter 2020: The Social Mission of Higher Education

Volume 106, Number 1

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Features

Risks and Costs in the Quest for Social Mobility through Higher Education

By Patricia McGuire

Recognizing the Reality of Working College Students

By Laura W. Perna and Taylor K. Odle

The Human Work of Higher Education Pedagogy

By Jesse Stommel

LGBTQ Students and the Liberation of College Campuses

By Jennifer Brier

Higher Education’s Reckoning with Slavery

By Leslie M. Harris

The Purge of Higher Education

By Eva-Maria Swidler

Why I Go to Prison

By James Ferry

Online Only

Data Snapshot: Graduate Students, Social Class, and Academia’s Promise

By Mathieu Dubeau and Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer

Data Snapshot: Is Higher Education a Pipeline to the American Dream?

By John N. Friedman

Data Snapshot: Trends in Faculty Participation in Presidential Searches

By Hans-Joerg Tiede

Book Reviews

Academic Freedom under Threat

By Keith E. Whittington

Building the Student Body Politic

By Susan Jarosi

A Curriculum for Black Youth Activism

By Thai-Huy Nguyen

Columns

From the Editor: Students and the Social Mission

By Michael Ferguson

Faculty Forum: The Tyranny of the Immediate

By Kristen Ghodsee

Legal Watch: The Status of Graduate Assistant Organizing

By Risa L. Lieberwitz and Nancy Long

Nota Bene

Restructuring Changes in Effect

By Kelly Hand

Historic Union Vote in New Mexico

By Kelly Hand

Statement in Defense of Knowledge

By Anita Levy

Report on Dismissal at Pacific Lutheran University

By Hans-Joerg Tiede

Statement on Wisconsin Presidential Search

By Hans-Joerg Tiede

Defending Public Higher Education in Alaska

By Jim Bakken

Statement on Hong Kong Universities

By Kelly Hand

Statement about Assault on Indian University

By Kelly Hand

AAUP Comments on Proposed NLRB Rule

By Kelly Hand

New AAUP Staff

By Kelly Hand

New Second Vice President

By Kelly Hand