University Industrial Complex

On University Complicity in Hegemonic Global Institutions

The American university, as a monolith, is actively complicit, if not a perpetrator, in the genocide of Palestinians and the perpetuation of the military, prison, and educational industrial complexes in the United States. Universities contribute fiscally, politically, and practically to genocide and oppression on a major scale.

Read the online articles and links below to learn how universities and colleges, including Bryn Mawr College, contribute to apartheid and genocide across the world, and why it is our responsibility to fight these systems from within.

Online Links

Book Recommendations

  • Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom Maya Wind
  • In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities Davarian Baldwin
  • Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education Sharon Stein