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• Higher Education as a Moral Enterprise (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1992), by Edward Le Roy Long (PDF at Georgetown)
• The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for Making-Learning-Creating-Acting (Bristol, UK: HammerOn Press, c2014), ed. by Alex Wardrop and Deborah M. Withers (PDF with commentary at hammeronpress.net)

• 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)
• 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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Third University is Possible (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), by la paperson (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Rethinking the Future of the University (1998), ed. by David Lyle Jeffrey and Dominic Manganiello (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Virginia Kuhn and Anke K. Finger
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • HTML at openediiton.org
• The Mind of Clark Kerr: His View of the University Factory and the "New Slavery" (Berkeley: Independent Socialist Club, c1964), by Hal Draper (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The Pursuit of Knowledge: A Discussion of Freedom and Compulsion in Education (1934), by Stephen Leacock (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• College Prolongs Infancy (New York: John Day Co., c1932), by Horace Meyer Kallen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address before the Alumni of Bowdoin College, by Daniel R. Goodwin (page images at MOA)
• Inaugural Address Delivered by Samuel Harris At His Induction Into the Presidency of Bowdoin College, August 6, 1867 (Brunswick, ME: J. Griffin, 1867), by Samuel Harris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• The Relations of Higher Education to National Prosperity, by Charles Kendall Adams (page images at MOA)
• A Turning Point in Higher Education, by Charles William Eliot (page images at MOA)
• University Education, by Henry Philip Tappan (page images at MOA)
• Addresses at the Inauguration of Professor Noah Porter, D.D., Ll.D., as President of Yale College (New York: Scribner and Co., 1871), by Yale University
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• A General Idea of the College of Mirania, With a Sketch of the Method of Teaching Science and Religion, in the Several Classes; and Some Account of its Rise, Establishment and Buildings (1753), by William Smith (frame-dependent page images here at Penn)

• Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, c2018), ed. by Nancy W. Gleason (PDF and Epub at SpringerLink)

• Castells in Africa: University and Development (Cape Town: African Minds, 2017), ed. by Johan Muller, Nico Cloete, and François Van Schalkwyk, contrib. by Manuel Castells (PDF at Project MUSE)
• Weaving Success: Voices of Change in African Higher Education (New York: Institute of International Education 2011), by Megan Lindow
  • multiple formats with commentary at iie.org
  • PDF at Ford Foundation

• 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)

• Social Media in Higher Education: Case Studies, Reflections and Analysis (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Chris Rowell (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Untangling the Web: Applications of the Internet and Other Information Technologies to Higher Learning, by David J. McArthur and Matthew W. Lewis (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Self-Directed Multimodal Learning in Higher Education (Cape Town: AOSIS Books, 2020), ed. by J. A. K. Olivier (PDF with commentary in South Africa)
• The Battle for Open: How Openness Won and Why It Doesn't Feel Like Victory (London: Ubiquity Press, 2014), by Martin Weller (multiple formats at ubiquitypress.com)
• New Technologies, New Pedagogies: Mobile Learning in Higher Education (2009), ed. by Jan Herrington, Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney, and Brian Ferry (PDF in Australia)
• Social Media in Higher Education: Case Studies, Reflections and Analysis (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Chris Rowell (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Teaching in Blended Learning Environments: Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry, by Norman D. Vaughan, Martha Cleveland-Innes, and D. R. Garrison (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Education (Cambridge, MA and London; et al: MIT Press, 2018), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• The Uberfication of the University (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), by Gary Hall (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2021), by Lucy Montgomery, John Hartley, Cameron Neylon, Malcolm Gillies, Eve Horwitz Gray, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Chun-Kai Huang, Joan Leach, Jason Potts, Xiang Ren, Katherine Skinner, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, and Katie Wilson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Social Media in Higher Education: Case Studies, Reflections and Analysis (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Chris Rowell (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies (c2012), ed. by Diana Oblinger (PDF and HTML files with commentary at Educause)
• Cultivating Careers: Professional Development for Campus IT (Boulder, CO: Educause, 2006), ed. by Cynthia Golden (PDF and HTML files with commentary at Educause)
• Hacking the Academy: The Edited Volume (2011), by Daniel J. Cohen, ed. by Tom Scheinfeldt (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge (2008), ed. by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Transforming Scholarly Practice (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2011), by Martin Weller (HTML with commentary at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding, and Supporting Games Education (text-only version; c2010), by José P. Zagal (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• 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)

• Microcosmographia Academica: Being a Guide for the Young Academic Politician (c1908), by Francis Macdonald Cornford (HTML at Murray State)

• Higher Education as a Moral Enterprise (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1992), by Edward Le Roy Long (PDF at Georgetown)

• The International HETL Review (2011-) (full serial archives)
• Association of American Colleges Bulletin (full serial archives)

• 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)
• The Idea of a University, by John Henry Newman
  • HTML at Fordham
  • HTML at newmanreader.org

• Ten Ways to Fight Hate on Campus: A Response Guide for College Activists (Montgomery, AL: Teaching Tolerance, c2004), by Brian Willoughby, illust. by Ulla Puggaard (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher Education (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), ed. by Patrick Blessinger and T. J. Bliss (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.