What Is the Future of the University?

Donna Merchant Todd Wolfson is a professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers. The university was an important realm for upward mobility and for training a workforce, she says. Free higher education happened as people of color were largely getting access to free public universities, Donna argues. Don: What we've seen in the neoliberal period is a deeply indebted university where students have to take out enormous loans.

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