On the debut episode of Campus Trap, Ryan Boyd joins me to reflect on how much the stereotypical “college experience” has evolved since our undergraduate days, when a countercultural bacchanalia was still dominant in the popular  imagination, if not in practical reality. From the world of keg-stands and bongloads to the sobering realities of 21st century academia, we trace our own paths through graduate school and into a precarious labor market that seems shakier by the minute. How did our collective vision of college transform in the neoliberal era? And now that we’re professors ourselves, how do we navigate an increasingly dysfunctional society alongside our students?

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