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 10, 2025. “How Wall Street Broke the College Bookstore.” LeverNews.com.
• 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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On blood money and “the moral costs of an elite education.”

References and suggested readings:

• David S. Busch. 2025. Disciplining Democracy: How the Modern American University Transformed Student Activism. Cornell University Press.
• Ethan Schrum. 2019. The Instrumental University: Education in Service of the National Agenda after World War II. Cornell University Press.
• Julie A. Reuben. 1996. The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality. University of Chicago Press.
• Eleanor Roosevelt. 1940. The Moral Basis of Democracy.
• Harris Wofford. 2023. Embers of the World: Conversations with Scott Buchanan. Legare Street Press.
• David Busch’s website: davidsbusch.com

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