ABSTRACT
With the publication of this work, Maria Avila joins a small but growing number of authors shedding new light on the role that colleges and universities have played—and play today— in American society. One of those authors, Kenneth H. Wheeler (2011), published Cultivating Regionalism: Higher Education and the Making of the American Midwest. Another, Adrianna Kezar (2012), collected a book of incisive essays in her book Embracing Non-tenure Track Faculty. In addition, Harry Boyte (2017) and others have written extensively about this topic.
