The speeches of Peter Salovey, twenty-third president of Yale University, organized thematically. From 2013 to 2024, Peter Salovey served as the twenty-third president of Yale; prior to his presidency he served as dean and provost. The speeches com...

The decades-long, worldwide project to reform higher education has failed to live up to either present challenges or projected future change. The university is now facing existential threats. Since the pandemic, the question of whether we need the un...

Expert guidance for navigating the difficult new issues around free speech rights in higher education. In their earlier book, "Free Speech on Campus", Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman argued that colleges and universities should permit the expr...

The surprising two-hundred-year history of diversity in education, commerce, and science from the scholar the New Yorker dubbed America's "diversity detective". As a war on diversity upends government, corporate, and education policies, the history...

A former Harvard president reflects on how elite universities are responding to critiques from the left and the right, and how they can do better. Elite American universities, such as Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, are admired throughout the world....

A founding document of African American Studies, reissued for today's students and scholars. In a landmark 1968 conference at Yale University, students, faculty, and community activists helped establish "Afro?American Studies" as a major, and then...

From the president of Wesleyan University, an illuminating history of the student, spanning from antiquity to Zoom. In this sweeping book, Michael S. Roth narrates a vivid and dynamic history of students, exploring some of the principal models for...

Galleries around the world are at an ethical crossroads. Can they resist pernicious corporate and political influence? Culture and power have been bedfellows since ancient times - in the case of exhibits and collections, now more than ever. Protests...

A comprehensive history of Yale Divinity School and its impact on theology, religious life, and culture across two centuries, published for the school's bicentennial. "This Grand Errand" is the chronicle of a theological institution through 200 year...

n this bracing book, Michael S. Roth stakes out a pragmatist path through the thicket of issues facing colleges today to carry out the mission of higher education. With great empathy, candor, subtlety, and insight, Roth offers a sane approach to the...