
Bryan Alexander, "Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
New Books in Higher Education
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The Role of Academics in Addressing the Climate Crisis
I hope with this book to make that quiet go give way to a loud noisy discussion so that we can really be thinking about what is it mean to take colleges and universities forward the next 75 years in this context. How should we reshape our research mission, our physical campuses, our community relations, our teaching and pedagogy? That's the kind of discussion I hope this book provokes. If it is read right you can never assume you have a readership but I think people will find this book personally.
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