Multiplicity, Belonging, and Free Speech in US Higher Education

New realities in US higher education are a crisis across the field. The death of official race-based affirmative action is but the tip of an iceberg. This book provides new ideas for facing the main challenges and problems: the US Supreme Court ban of Affirmative Action; falling enrollment and low retention; downsizing and moribund humanities; the unjust situation of adjunct instructors; college firsts confronting social class; student mental health and microaggression; disruptive free speech; AI as mind numbing; campus dangers and insecurity; anti-intellectual ideological political pressure. The new ideas and policy changes proposed here result in a new model of belonging for the multiplicities of race, ethnicity, gender, class, age, and nationality--and more--in actual and potential college communities.