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• Big Business and the American University (New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1966), by Bettina Aptheker (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)

• FIRE's Guide to Student Fees, Funding, and Legal Equality on Campus (c2003), by Jordan Lorence (PDF files with commentary at thefire.org)

• Dethroning Historical Reputations: Universities, Museums and the Commemoration of Benefactors (London: Institute of Historical Research, 2018), ed. by Jill Pellew and Lawrence Goldman (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Ripoff 101: How the Publishing Industry's Practices Needlessly Drive Up Textbook Costs (second edition, 2005), by Kate Rube, contrib. by Merriah Fairchild (PDF with commentary at maketextbooksaffordable.org)
• Ripoff 101: How the Current Practices of the Textbook Industry Drive Up the Cost of College Textbooks (2004), by Merriah Fairchild (PDF at Michigan)
• Collaboration, Technology, and Outsourcing Initiatives in Higher Education: A Literature Review, by Tessa Kaganoff (PDF at rand.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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• Financing Postsecondary Education: The Federal Role, by United States Department of Education (HTML at ed.gov)

• Restoring the Balance: Dollars, Values, and the Future of College Sports (2010), by Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics (PDF and Javascript-dependent HTML at knightcommission.org)

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

• Rethinking the Future of the University (1998), ed. by David Lyle Jeffrey and Dominic Manganiello (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• Handbook of British, Continental and Canadian Universities, With Special Mention of the Courses Open to Women (New York: Macmillan, 1899), ed. by Isabel Maddison (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Pursuit of Knowledge: A Discussion of Freedom and Compulsion in Education (1934), by Stephen Leacock (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• 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)

• The Western University on Trial (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), ed. by John W. Chapman (HTML at UC Press)

• Valences of Interdisciplinarity: Theory, Practice, Pedagogy (c2012), ed. by Raphael Foshay (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• 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)

• A Blow at the Root: or, An Attempt to Prove, that No Time Ever Was, or Very Probably Ever Will Be, So Proper and Convenient as the Present, for Introducing a Further Reformation into our National Church, Universities, and Schools (London: Printed for A. Tozer, 1749), by Aaron Tozer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Faculty as Global Learners: Off-Campus Study at Liberal Arts Colleges (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2020), by Joan Gillespie, Lisa Jasinski, and Dana Lynn Gross (multiple formats with commentary at Lever Press)

• The Rise and Progress of Negro Colleges in Georgia, 1865-1949 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1951), by Willard Range (PDF at Georgia)

• Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Sidonie Smith (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• A Study of the Graduate Schools of America (Oxford, OH: Miami University, ca. 1925), by Raymond M. Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Enactments in Parliament, Specially Concerning the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Colleges and Halls Therein and the Colleges of Winchester, Eton and Westminster (4 volumes, 1912), by Great Britain Parliament, ed. by Lionel Lancelot Shadwell
  • Volume I (37 Edward III - 13 Anne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1 George I - 11 George IV): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (11 George IV - 32 Victoria): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (32 Victoria - 2 George V, with Appendices): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Rise of Universities (1923), by Charles Homer Haskins (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries, by James J. Walsh (illustrated HTML at Notre Dame)

• Too Much College: or, Education Eating Up Life; With Kindred Essays in Education and Humour (c1939), by Stephen Leacock (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• College Days (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1923), by Stephen Leacock
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Town Planning Towards City Development: A Report to the Durbar of Indore (2 volumes; Indore: Holkar state printing press, 1918), by Patrick Geddes
  • both parts: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Part I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Higher Education and the State: An Address Delivered Before the Fortnightly Club of Bloomington, Indiana (ca. 1898), by Joseph Swain (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Study in Holland: A Guide for Prospective Students (second edition; New York: Netherlands Information Bureau, 1961), by Hans Koning (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Banta's Greek Exchange (partial serial archives)

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

• 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)
• 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)

• Reason, Faith, and Duty (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1877), by James Walker (page images at MOA)
• Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College, by Horace Mann (page images at MOA)

• The Peoples' Friendship University in the U.S.S.R. (Washington: U. S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, 1962), by Seymour Michael Rosen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Discurso Leído en la Solemne Inauguración del Curso Académico de 1914 á 1915 (discourse title "La Vida Corporativa de los Estudiantes Españoles en sus Relaciones con la Historia de las Universidades"; in Spanish; Madrid: Imp. Colonial, 1914), by Adolfo Bonilla y San Martín
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• 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)
• AACTE Study Series (partial serial archives)
• Universities and the Future of America (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), by Derek Curtis Bok (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Goose-Step: A Study of American Education (Pasadena, CA: The author, c1923), by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Making Socialists Out of College Students: A Story of Professors and Other Collegians who Hobnob with Radicals (Los Angeles: Better America Federation of California, ca. 1920), by Woodworth Clum (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Student's Manual, by John Todd (page images at MOA)
• Universities in America, by E. O. Haven (page images at MOA)
• 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)
• Educational Facilities in the United States for South African Students (New York: Institute of International Education, 1921), by Federation of South African Students in America
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum of the Conduct of Universities by Business Men, by Thorstein Veblen (text at McMaster; 540K)
• Rambles in Old College Towns (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1917), by Hildegarde Hawthorne, illust. by John Albert Seaford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• College Prolongs Infancy (New York: John Day Co., c1932), by Horace Meyer Kallen (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.