Peter Kemp (Aarhus): The Idea of University in a Cosmopolitan Perspective. Davide Cantoni and Noam Yuchtman on how universities helped transform the medieval world. From H-Net, a review of Twentieth-Century Higher Education: Elite to Mass to Universal. A review of The Constitution Goes to College: Five Constitutional Ideas That Have Shaped the American University by Rodney A. Smolla. Donald Alexander Downs and Ilia Murtazashvili on their book Arms and the University: Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-Military Students. Anthony Grafton reviews College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco (and more and more and more and more). Sam Ross-Brown on the college identity crisis. From Prospect, will online learning spell the end of universities? Nick Strohl on the past and future of public higher education. The Ronin Institute is hoping to revolutionize academia by connecting unaffiliated scholars to research funding.
