Mostly, I’m interested in what books you read in 2024.
Let me know if there is any overlap between the books I reviewed and what you read.
Here are the books I wrote about in 2024:
‘Never Enough’ and the Roots of Our College Student Mental Health Crisis: Can universities be a counterweight to a toxic achievement culture?
Failure, Academic Careers and ‘Right Kind of Wrong’: Care to share your career failures with our Inside Higher Ed community?
The Ed-Tech ‘Blood in the Machine’: Can the 19th-century Luddite movement help us think about the corporate digitization of education?
An Imagined ‘Economics in America’ Dinner Conversation on Inequality in Higher Education: What I’d ask Sir Angus Deaton.
Universities and the ‘Material World’: What is higher education made of?
Scaled Online Learning as Higher Ed’s ‘Pandora’s Box’: And other imperfect academic equivalencies inspired by a fantastic book on the history of prestige TV.
Is ‘Filterworld’ Coming for Higher Ed? On algorithms and educators.
Campuses, Climate Change and ‘How Infrastructure Works’:
Understanding how the infrastructural systems that enable our campuses to run are dependent on stable climate.
Reading ‘On the Move’ and Thinking Mostly About Climate Change:
Another excellent book to place in conversation with Universities on Fire.
‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ and the Adaptable Campus: Climate change and higher education’s built environment.
Higher Ed and ‘Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm’: Climate change and the eight most interesting colleges and universities in the U.S.
‘The Displacements’ and the Need for a Climate Change Academic Novel: A call to combine climate and campus fiction.
‘The English Experience’ Rounds Out the ‘Dear Committee’ Trilogy:
Wondering how this novel, which is in part about teaching students to write, might have been different if written after the release of ChatGPT.
‘Supercommunicators’ and the Challenges of Hybrid Professional Academic Work: Why hybrid university work is better but feels worse, and where learning to be better digital communicators may help.
Why Universities Need to Decarbonize ‘Five Times Faster’: Higher education and the economics of climate change.
The Election, ‘Our Final Warning’ and Us: Where Universities on Fire meets Six Degrees of Climate Emergency.
‘How the World Ran Out of Everything’ and ‘Recentering Learning’: Economic and higher education lessons from the pandemic.
University Culture and ‘The Geek Way’: What higher ed should absorb and reject from tech culture.
Introducing ‘Recentering Learning’: The sections, chapter titles and authors from our new co-edited book.
