In this episode of Rocking the Academy, co-hosts Roopika Risam and Mary Churchill talk with Chris Newfield, author of The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016). We talk with Chris about the systematic defunding of higher education, the lack of faculty workplace engagement in universities, gender and scholar-activism within universities, and the need for debt-free college.

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