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• Higher education in the United States

• Losing Ground: A National Status Report on the Affordability of American Higher Education (2002), by National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (HTML at highereducation.org)
• Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), ed. by Bronwyn T. Williams (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Report on Higher Education (Washington: US Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, 1971), by Frank Newman, William Bernard Cannon, Stanley Cavell, Audrey C. Cohen, Russell Edgerton, James F. Gibbons, Martin Kramer, Joseph Rhodes, and Robert Singleton
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Meritocracy and the University: Selective Admission in England and the United States (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2016), by Anna Mountford-Zimdars (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury)
• Discourses by Rev. Samuel T. Seelye, and Rev. Calvin E. Stowe, Delivered ... Before the Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West, by Samuel T. Seelye and C. E. Stowe (page images at MOA)
• The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum of the Conduct of Universities by Business Men, by Thorstein Veblen (text at McMaster; 540K)
• The Old and the New (address at 7th annual Stanford commencement; Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1898), by Walter Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter to the Honorable, the Board of Trustees of the University of Mississippi, by Frederick A. P. Barnard (page images at MOA)

• Breaking the Social Contract: The Fiscal Crisis in California Higher Education, by Roger Benjamin and Stephen J. Carroll (PDF files at rand.org)

• Higher Education and the Student Rebellion in the United States, 1960-1969: A Bibliography (Bibliographical Series #6; New York: American Institute for Marxist Studies, c1969), by Bettina Aptheker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Collaboration, Technology, and Outsourcing Initiatives in Higher Education: A Literature Review, by Tessa Kaganoff (PDF at rand.org)

• The Class of 2014: Preserving Access to California Higher Education, by George S. Park and Robert J. Lempert (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security (c2012), by National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Higher Education and Workforce (multiple formats with commentary at NAP)

• Breaking the Social Contract: The Fiscal Crisis in California Higher Education, by Roger Benjamin and Stephen J. Carroll (PDF files at rand.org)

• Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025 (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2010), by David J. Staley and Kara Josephine Malenfant (PDF at ala.org)

• Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds: Universities, Leadership, and the Development of the American State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Mark R. Nemec (page images at HathiTrust)

• Edward Charles Elliott, Educator (Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Studies, c1970), by Frank K. Burrin (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education (1992-) (partial serial archives)

• The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum of the Conduct of Universities by Business Men, by Thorstein Veblen (text at McMaster; 540K)

• American Jewry and the College Campus: Best of Times or Worst of Times? (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2005), by Deborah E. Lipstadt, Samuel G. Freedman, and Chaim Seidler-Feller (PDF at ajcarchives.org)

• Bigotry on Campus: A Planned Response (New York: American Jewish Committee, c1990), by Kenneth S. Stern (PDF at bjpa.org)

• For Profit Higher Education: The Failure to Safeguard the Federal Investment and Ensure Student Success (official commitee print, 4 volumes; 2012), by United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (PDF and text at senate.gov and fdlp.gov)
• The National Student Education Fund (Washington: Heritage Foundation, 1982), by David Asman
  • PDF and HTML at heritage.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Preparing for the Workplace: Charting a Course for Federal Postsecondary Training Policy (1994), ed. by Janet S. Hansen (page images with commentary at NAP)

• UW Struggle: When a State Attacks its University (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), by Chuck Rybak (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds: Universities, Leadership, and the Development of the American State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Mark R. Nemec (page images at HathiTrust)
• Losing Ground: A National Status Report on the Affordability of American Higher Education (2002), by National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (HTML at highereducation.org)
• For Profit Higher Education: The Failure to Safeguard the Federal Investment and Ensure Student Success (official commitee print, 4 volumes; 2012), by United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (PDF and text at senate.gov and fdlp.gov)
• The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Simon Marginson (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• ReInventing The University: Literacies and Legitimacy in the Postmodern Academy (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Christopher L. Schroeder (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Lessons Learned from FIPSE Projects II, by United States Department of Education (HTML at ed.gov)
• Lessons Learned from FIPSE Projects III, by United States Department of Education (HTML at ed.gov)

• Unlocking the Gates: How and Why Universities are Opening Up Access to Their Courses (text-only version; Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, c2011), by Taylor Walsh (PDF with commentary at ithaka.org)

• The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Simon Marginson (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• Higher Education and the New Society (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008), by George Keller (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• The American University: National Treasure or Endangered Species? (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1997), ed. by Ronald G. Ehrenberg (at ecommons.cornell.edu)
• Manifesto of a Tenured Radical (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Cary Nelson (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Universities and the Future of America (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), by Derek Curtis Bok (page images at HathiTrust)
• What is Academic Freedom? A Century of Debate, 1915-Present (London and New York: Routledge, c2023), by Daniel Gordon (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security (c2012), by National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Higher Education and Workforce (multiple formats with commentary at NAP)
• Lessons Learned from FIPSE Projects, by United States Department of Education (HTML at ed.gov)

• ReInventing The University: Literacies and Legitimacy in the Postmodern Academy (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Christopher L. Schroeder (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud (c2008), ed. by Richard N. Katz (PDF and HTML files with commentary at Educause)
• Educating the Net Generation (Boulder, CO: Educause, 2005), ed. by Diana Oblinger and James L. Oblinger (PDF and HTML files with commentary at Educause)
• Unlocking the Gates: How and Why Universities are Opening Up Access to Their Courses (text-only version; Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, c2011), by Taylor Walsh (PDF with commentary at ithaka.org)

• Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds: Universities, Leadership, and the Development of the American State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Mark R. Nemec (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teaching What You're Not: Identity Politics in Higher Education (New York and London: New York University Press, 1996), ed. by Katherine J. Mayberry, contrib. by Nancy J. Peterson, Barbara Scott Winkler, Janet M. Powers, J. Scott Johnson, Jennifer Kellen, Greg Seibert, Celia Shaughnessy, Christie Farnham, Barbara DiBernard, Celeste Michelle Condit, Jacqueline Jones, Lavina Dhingra, Indira Karamcheti, Craig Heller, Robert S. Levine, Gary L. Lemons, Gerard Aching, Donna J. Watson, Mary Elizabeth Lanser, and Renée R. Curry (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Manifesto of a Tenured Radical (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Cary Nelson (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Universities and the Future of America (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), by Derek Curtis Bok (page images at HathiTrust)
• Higher Education and the New Society (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008), by George Keller (PDF files at Project MUSE)

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