HIGHER ED EQUITY & JUSTICE
- Alexander, Bryan. Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.
- Baldwin, Davarian. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities. Bold Type Books, 2021.
- Barton, Nimisha. A Just Future: Getting from Diversity and Inclusion to Equity and Justice in Higher Education. Cornell University Press, 2024.
- Lee, Elizabeth. Class and Campus Life: Managing and Experiencing Inequality at an Elite College. Cornell University ILR Press, 2016.
HIGHER ED HISTORY
- Davidoff, Al. Unionizing the Ivory Tower: Cornell Workers’ Fifteen-Year Fight for Justice and a Living Wage. Cornell ILR, 2023.
- Dorn, Charles. For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America. Cornell University Press, 2022.
- Higgins, Andrew Stone. Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan. University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
- Schrecker, Ellen Wolf. The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University. New Press, 2010.
- Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy. Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt. Harvard University Press, 2021.
- Sorber, Nathan M. Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt: The Origins of the Morrill Act. Cornell University Press, 2018.
- Taylor, Barrett J. and Brendan Cantwell. The Postliberal University: Governance, Leadership, and Partisanship in Higher Education. Harvard Education Press, 2026.
- Wellmon, Chad. After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work. JHUP, 2026.
FACULTY IN THE NEOLIBERAL UNIVERSITY
- Fure-Slocum, Eric and Claire Goldstene, eds. Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History. University of Illinois Press, 2024.
- Gerber, Larry. The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance: Professionalization and the Modern American University. JHUP, 2014.
- Kezar, Adrianna, Tom DePaola and Daniel T. Scott. The Gig Academy: Mapping Labor in the Neoliberal University. JHUP, 2019.
- Vatansever, Asli and Aysuda Kölemen, eds. Academic Freedom and Precarity in the Global North. Routledge, 2023.
- Welch, Nancy and Tony Scott, eds. Composition in the Age of Austerity. Colorado/Utah State Press, 2016.
HIGHER ED FINANCE + ACCOUNTING
- Eaton, Charlie. Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- Gagliardi, Jonathan S. How Colleges Use Data. JHUP, 2022.
- Smith, Dean O. How University Budgets Work. JHUP, 2019.
- Webber, Karen L. and Henry Zheng, eds. Big Data on Campus: Data Analytics and Decision Making in Higher Education. JHUP, 2020.
ARTICLES
- Academe, Special Issue: Revolutionizing Higher Ed Budget & Finance, Fall 2022.
- Eaton, Charlie et al. “Borrowing Against the Future: The Hidden Costs of Financing U.S. Higher Education.” Debt & Society, 2014.
- Furstenberg, François. “University Leaders Are Failing.” Chronicle of Higher Education, May 19, 2020.
- Newfield, Christopher. “Budget Justice.” Academe, Spring 2021.
- Schirmer, Eleni. “It’s Not Just Students Drowning in Debt. Colleges Are Too!” The Nation, November 20, 2020.
- Welch, Nancy. “Educating for Austerity.” International Socialist Review 76 (March 2011).
- Welch, Nancy. “La Langue de Coton: How Neoliberal Language Pulls the Wool Over Faculty Governance.” Pedagogy 11, no. 3 (Fall 2011).
GENERAL FINANCE + MONEY
- Klein, Naomi and Astra Taylor. End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World. Macmillan, 2026.
- Krippner, Greta R. Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance. HUP, 2012.
- MacLean, Nancy. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America. Viking, 2017.