Who governs the college? A history of boards of trustees with Asheesh Siddique

Asheesh Siddique discusses the colonial creation of college trustee boards and explains how trustees govern our institutions today.

• Asheesh Siddique. 2024. The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World. Yale University Press. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300267716/the-archive-of-empire/ 
• Asheesh Siddique. 2021, May 19. Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards. Teen Vogue. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/campus-cancel-culture-university-boards 
• What are Universities for? 2024-2025 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series. University of Massachusetts–Amherst. https://websites.umass.edu/feinberg/ 
• Elizabeth Tandy Shermer. 2021. Indentured Students: How Government Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in Student Debt. Harvard University Press. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674251489  
• Thorstein Veblen. 2015. The Higher Learning in America: The Annotated Edition: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men. Edited with an introduction and notes by Richard F. Teichgraeber III. Johns Hopkins University Press. https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/11171/higher-learning-america-annotated-edition