On hedge funds, private equity, and the financialization of public colleges.

References and suggested readings:

• The Coalition Against Campus Debt. 2024. Lend and Rule: Fighting the Financialization of Public Universities. Common Notions Press.
• Sofya Aptekar’s faculty page
• sofyaaptekar.com
• Robin D. G. Kelley. 2022. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (20th anniversary edition). Beacon Press.
• Robin D. G. Kelley. Fall 2022. Twenty Years of Freedom Dreams. Boston Review.

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How public universities gave rise to public media

References and suggested readings:

• Josh Shepperd. 2023. Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting. University of Illinois Press.
• Laura Garbes. 2025. Listeners Like Who: Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry. Princeton University Press.
• Katherine Jewell. 2023. Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio. University of North Carolina.
• Josh Shepperd’s BlueSky and faculty page

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Does your campus use B&N Education or Follett?

References and suggested readings:

• Katya Schwenk. September 2025. “College Textbooks: Wall Street’s New Cash Cow.” Jacobin.
• Vincent Bevins. 2020. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World. PublicAffairs.
• levernews.com

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