Reconstructing the "Uni-versity"

From the Ashes of the "Mega- and Multi-versity" to the Futures of Higher Education

By: Harvey J. Graff

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Hardcover | 11 December 2025

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Slogans, myths, and isolated anecdotes are inadequate substitutes for documented history and contextual understanding.

Literature on the history of higher education is dominated by ahistorical and contextually ignorant slogans. Seldom acknowledged, in discussions of the âdeclineâ or âfailureâ of the modern university, is 1) how long it has been going on (at least since the 1960s); and 2) universitiesâ own complicity in this long, complicated, and contradictory process. Myths intertwine inseparably with slogans to echo yet another âlost cause.â Our collective, as well as individual, pasts provide essential lessons if we know how to read and learn from them. More complicated is imagining a plausible better future for universities. In Reconstructing the âUni-versityâ: From the Ashes of the âMega- and Multi-versityâ to the Futures of Higher Education, Harvey J. Graff, bringing experience from over 50 years as a professor, provides an accurate history of higher education, redefining the issues and terms to establish a new agenda.

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