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a vast infrastructure, vestigial buildings. And at least a few years
 

      More to the point, in the past century and a half, oddly matched teams of fundraisers and construction workers have brought into being a vast infrastructure: the enormous arrangement of buildings and grounds called “campuses.” Even if... there will still be several decades, maybe even a century, in which anachronistic practitioners of material, place-based higher education will still be found puttering around those vestigial buildings. And there will be at least a few years when I can be trotted out, nursing home assistants training along beside me, to reminisce about the ancient days of yore when a professor could sit with a student and declare, “You can write better than this,” and then lead the student in the very material actions required to make that declaration prophetic and productive.

somewhere, by someone, midway through Lester F. Goodchild, Richard W. Jonsen, Patty Limerick and David A. Longanecker, eds., Higher Education in the American West : Regional History and State Contexts (2014)
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29 October 2024