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Interview with Jon Lauck, Author of From Warm Center to Ragged Edge, Part II
Andy Seal: Speaking of institutions, one of the many things I found compelling about Warm Center was the way you connected the decline of Midwestern regionalism to the rise of the multiversity and especially to the transformation of the academic job market. As state universities scaled up into multiversities in the 1960s, they increasingly tried to tap into national and (eventually) international talent pools both for students and for new faculty. From the supply side, a person entering a PhD program also had to think now about applying for jobs all over the nation, as the number of new PhDs Read more
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