Asheesh Siddique discusses the colonial creation of college trustee boards and explains how trustees govern our institutions today.

• Asheesh Siddique. 2024. The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World. Yale University Press.
• Asheesh Siddique. 2021, May 19. Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards. Teen Vogue.
• What are Universities for? 2024-2025 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series. University of Massachusetts–Amherst.  
• Elizabeth Tandy Shermer. 2021. Indentured Students: How Government Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in Student Debt. Harvard University Press.   
• Thorstein Veblen. 2015. The Higher Learning in America: The Annotated Edition: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men. Edited with an introduction and notes by Richard F. Teichgraeber III. Johns Hopkins University Press.

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