"Serious, personal, and deeply learned, After the University is one of the most interesting and thought-provoking books on higher education to appear in recent years. Chad Wellmon challenges readers to reconsider how universities have come to privilege credentials and measurable outcomes over the practices of disciplined study. Readers may not agree with every aspect of his diagnosis, but the book's real achievement lies in how powerfully it reframes the questions that now confront higher learning. It should be on the bookshelf of anyone interested in US higher education."