Unsettling the University av Sharon (Assistant Professor) Stein

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<p><b>Shifts the narrative around the history of US higher education to examine its colonial past.</b></p><p>Over the past several decades, higher education in the United States has been shaped by marketization and privatization. Efforts to critique these developments often rely on a contrast between a bleak present and a romanticized past. In <i>Unsettling the University</i>, Sharon Stein offers a different entry point¿one informed by decolonial theories and practices¿for addressing these issues.</p><p>Stein describes the colonial violence underlying three of the most celebrated moments in US higher education history: the founding of the original colonial colleges, the creation of land-grant colleges and universities, and the post¿World War II "Golden Age." Reconsidering these historical moments through a decolonial lens, Stein reveals how the central promises of higher education¿the promises of continuous progress, a benevolent public good, and social mobility¿are fundamentally based