{"id":55726,"date":"2017-02-04T08:22:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T18:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=55726"},"modified":"2019-02-28T13:42:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T23:42:01","slug":"rebuilding-social-missions-at-public-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/04\/rebuilding-social-missions-at-public-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding social missions at public universities"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Christopher Newfield<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Christopher Newfield<\/a>, a professor of literature and American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara<\/a>, will present a public lecture, “Have We Wrecked Public Universities? If So, How Do We Fix Them?” on February 13. His research in critical university studies links his concern with humanities teaching to the study of how higher education continues to be re-shaped by industry and other economic forces.<\/p>\n

Newfield is the Dai Ho Chun Distinguished Chair in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences<\/a> at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a><\/p>\n

He\u00a0will speak about his new book on the post-2008 struggles of public universities to rebuild their social missions, The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them<\/a><\/em>. He also authored\u00a0Unmaking the Public University: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class<\/a><\/em> and\u00a0Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Newfield also writes about the American intellectual and social history. He blogs on higher education policy and writes for the\u00a0Huffington Post<\/em>, Inside Higher Ed<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The UH<\/abbr> Bookstore<\/a> will have books available for purchase at the signing.<\/p>\n

Event details<\/h2>\n