Year 2:  

College Sports: Follow the Money: Universities and Athletics: Part 1

Do Universities Actually Benefit from College Sports?: Universities and Athletics: Part 2

The New Legal Landscape of College Sports: Universities and Athletics: Part 3 - Questions and Decisions for Universities

Moyen and Thelin, College Sports: a history (online via ULS)

Jack, The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students (0nline via ULS)

Shropshire and Williams,  The Miseducation of the Student-Athlete (unfortunately not available online or via ULS)

Journal:

Martinez et al., "Intercollegiate athletics and institutional fundraising: A meta-analysis" Sport Marketing Quarterly (2010) (online via ULS)

Year 1

Monthly Readings:

October 23:
Lizzie O’Shea: Future Histories

November 20:
“The Role of Universities in Knowledge Production,” Re-Thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty, Nowotny, Scott, & Gibbons, eds.

Suggested Readings

Jonathan Koppell, “Office of the President: A Strong Future for CHSS,” Montclair State University, December 1, 2025
[Regarding restructuring at Montclair State University]

“Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Generative AI in Research and Education,” University of Pittsburgh Ad Hoc Committee on Generative AI, Lisa Parker, PhD & John G Radzilowicz, EdD, co-chairs***

“How AI is Changing Higher Education,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 5, 2025

Meacie Fairfax, “Redefining What We Mean by Equitable AI,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 5, 2025

Kerry Howley, “Surveillance is Made of Dogs: How Not to Infiltrate an NSA Building,” Iowa Magazine, June 20, 2023

Aviva Legatt, “An AI Ethics Roadmap Beyond Academic Integrity For Higher Education,” Forbes, July 8, 2025

Fei-Fei Li, “From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence is AI’s Next Frontier”

Michael J. Madison, Brett M. Frsichmann, & Katherine J. Strandburg, "The University as Constructed Cultural Commons," 30 Wash. U. J. Law & Pol’y 365 (2009)***

Megan McArdle, “The sweetheart deal is over for academia,” The Washington Post, October 19, 2025

Tochi Onyebuchi, “Dear Tech Evangelists: Have You Tried ‘Move Slow and Make Things’?,” Lit Hub, October 21, 2025

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, “The Myth of Technological Unemployment,” Reason, August/September 2017

Hollis Robbins, “College Bankruptcies Are Coming,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 3, 2025

Brent Vasquez, Jeremy DeRicco, Bill J. Yates & Robert K. Cunningham, “Ethical, robust and accurate use of AI in animal research,”
[pre-print]***

***Authored by members and featured in the Member Spotlight