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• 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)

• 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)

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 (New York: J. Parker and W. Weyman, 1753), by William Smith
  • HTML at Evans TCP
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 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

• 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 D-M Withers (PDF with commentary at hammeronpress.net)

• 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)
• In Defense of Free Speech in Universities: A Study of Three Jurisdictions (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Amy Tak-Yee Lai (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• College Life in the Old South (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1983), by E. Merton Coulter, contrib. by Thomas G. Dyer (PDF at Georgia)

• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.