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The built and landscaped spaces of colleges and universities radiate and absorb the values of the cultures in which they were created. As economic and political forces exert pressure on administrators and as our understanding of higher education shifts, these spaces can transform dramatically.
Focusing on the utopian visions and the dystopian realities of American campus life, this collection of new essays examines campus spaces from the perspective of those who live and work there. Topics include disability, sustainability, first-year writing, underrepresented groups on campus, online education, adjunct labor, and the way profit-driven agendas have shaped colleges and universities.
List of contents
Table of ContentsForeword by Sharon Haar
Preface
Introduction
Space Matters: Rethinking University Spaces for and with Underrepresented Students (La'Tonya Rease Miles)
Fifty Shades of Green: The Meshing of Culture, Teaching and
Business in College Campuses' Sustainability Efforts (Mauricio Espinoza)
Beds, Baths and Offices at the Johnston Center for Integrative
Studies (Kelly Hankin, Tim Seiber and Julie Townsend)
A Bridge, Not a Wall: Uses of the Hall of Fame for Great
Americans at Bronx Community College (Kate Culkin)
Nice (Icha)Bod: How Washburn University's Mascot Came
to Dominate Campus (Kelly Watt)
The Campus That Oil Built: Visualizing the University
of Texas' Extractive Wealth in the Age of the Corporate
University (Sarah Stanford-McIntyre)
Keep Morton Weird: Reading a Humanities Building in the
American South (Nicholas C. Laudadio)
Where (and When) Is College? (Miles McCrimmon)
A Sense of Belonging: Using Siftr to Empower Freshmen
(Margene Anderson)
Exploring Virtual Spaces Within the Community College
Campus (Cristina DeLuca Savarese)
The Invisible Adjunct: Inverse Panopticism in the English
Department (Jane Weiss)
Art Graft: Public Art and State Education (Igor Marjanovi¿ and Katerina Rüedi Ray)
Access, Tradition and Belonging at "the Alma Mater
the Nation" (Jessica Cowing)
Teachable Space: When the Spaces Where We Teach Become
the Spaces That We Teach (Robert M. Bednar)
Communitas and Liminal Space in the National Parks (Bill Atwill and Dan Noland)
West Point's Washington Hall: America's Panoptical Puzzle (William F. Hecker III)
About the Contributors
Index
About the author
Jonathan Silverman is an associate professor of English and co-director of American Studies at University of Massachusetts-Lowell. He has served as the Fulbright Roving Scholar in Norway.Meghan M. Sweeney is an associate professor of English at University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
