Table of Contents Introduction: An Autobiography of Higher Learning Ideal Readers Internal and External Goods, Disciplined Study and the University Deflection, Value Capture, and Alienation Section I: From Universitas to "the University" 1. Knowledge Institutions: Guild, Factory, Social System Universitas : Community, Guild, Job Enlightenment, the Department of Spiritual Affairs, and Good Institutions Abolish the Universitas ! The Knowledge Factory and the Department of Truth Guild Goods, Public Goods 2. From Corporation to Social System Making Education Public The Professional Path Personae of the Professional Path 3. The University Factory Industrial Enterprise and Educational Capital Disciplining the Disciplines Living the University: The Professor The Adjunct and the Unofficial University''s Broken Existences 4. The Student, Striving, and External Goods Quantifying Intellectual Desire, or, University Statistics as Philosophical Problem A University Education: To Have and Have Not Educational Capital, Surplus Students, and the Political Economy of the University Excursus I: The University, Technology, and the Magic of Credentials The Dependency of Intellectual Practices Credit, Credentials, and the Belief in Higher Education The Currency of Belief The Deformative Effects of Credential Currency Section II: Going Professional: The Modern University 5. Democracy, Progress, and the University The Classical College and Intellectual Desire Professionalization as Moral Discipline and Social Utility The Morrill Act as Historical and Institutional Caesura Data, Democracy, and the Search for Standardization Reinventing a College Tradition 6. Efficiency, Social Reform, and the Ends of Knowledge Academic Efficiency and Professionalization The Professional Social Scientist: Deflection and Value Capture The Contradictions of Higher Learning in a Democracy 7. An Alternative Vision: W.

E. B. Du Bois and the Ends of Knowledge Like Running a Railroad Academic Freedom and the Contradictions of Professionalization Professionalizing Social Problems Truth-Seeking and the Immediate and Mediate Aims of Disciplined Study The Black University Excursus II: General Education, Curriculum Reform, and the Dream of Unity, or, What Is Missing? Why General Education? Reconciling College and University Administrative Devices, Deflection, and Value Capture The Academy An Impossible Profession Section III: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Human Capital Theory 8. Access to What? The Belief in Higher Education and Human Capital Cultivating Belief in Higher Education The University''s Democratic Purposes Against Perfectibility: Cold War Liberalism and Higher Education 9. Human Capital and the University Human Capital Theory Makes a Comeback Human Capital Theory, the Management Revolution, and the System of Higher Education 10. The California Master Plan: Human Capital Theory Made Manifest Administering the Future The Logic of Meritocracy The Dramaturgy and Deflection of Higher Education Educational Relations, Social Conflict, and the University 11. The New Left, the Liberal Counterrevolution, and Meritocracy Where Is the University? The Students'' Push to Reform the Multiversity and a "Reinvigorated Liberalism" Liberals'' Reforms: Nothing Out of Bounds Liberalism Riven: David Riesman and Daniel Bell, Counterrevolutionaries 12. The Higher Faith and Student Credit The Political Economy of Higher Education ca.

1970 The Carnegie Commission and the Counterrevolution in Higher Education Creating a "Competitive Market" A Category for Every College: The CCHE Rolls Out the Carnegie Classification Schema Human Capital and Student Credit The "New" Student and the Deflection of Intellectual Desire 13. The Educational Revolution and an African University Elite Capture and Higher Education The Legacies of Colonial Education The Developmental University: Nation-Building and its Contradictions An African University? The Case of UCDS and Makerere Mazrui, Rodney, and the Value of Intellectual Work Relevance, Africanization, and Detachment "Your Ivory Tower Has Been Smashed": The Globalization of Higher Education Excursus III: August 11, 2017, Moral Clarity, and the Other University Moral Clarity Goes MIA The Capture of College and the Rise of the Other University The Management of Moral Lives Campus, Factory, Community Conclusion: The University is Not Enough "Adult Learners" and the Life of the Mind What is to be Done?.